Item - The Queen of Tragedy

(New York Weekly edition - source: Stanford Libraries)

(New York Weekly edition - source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)

Combined Summary

Online Full Text:	Digital Library @ Villanova University (New York Weekly edition) Stanford Digital Repository (New York Weekly edition) (Note: The date is misprinted on page 1. It should be October 8, 1877.)
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 32 no. 47 — page 8 New York Weekly — v. 60 no. 45 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Author:	Murray, Lieutenant, 1820-1895 (pseudonym used by Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray), 1820-1895)
Dates:	October 8, 1877 (New York Weekly edition) August 19, 1905 (New York Weekly edition)
Edition Description:	New York Weekly edition (page 8 in New York Weekly, v. XXXII, no. 47, October 8, 1877): It is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.-Tennyson
First Sentence:	It is not many years since the summer loungers upon the Champs Elysees, of Paris, were often regaled by an open-air performance of an attractive character, and to which they were wont to listen with more than ordinary attention. (New York Weekly edition)
Last Sentence:	Rachel received the homage of the world as queen of tragedy; was the favorite of princes, and had many a proud lover in her train; but she never again knew so true a heart as his, the boy-lover, who died for her! (New York Weekly edition)