A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 165
songs, for which Theodore usually wrote the libretto. When little morethan a boy he had produced, perhaps, thirty farces, and in 1808 gave birth to a novel.Those who remember the two great actors of a long period, Mathews and Liston,will be at no loss to comprehend the popularity of Hooks farces,… … the appointment of Accountant-General and Treasurer at the Mauritius—a post withan income of £^,000 a year. Hook seems to have derived his quahfication for thatoffice from his antipathy to arithmetic, and his utter unfitness for business. Theresult might have been easily foreseen : in 1819 he…
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