Two or three days before the late Mel. B. Spurr passed away, he was interviewed concerning his work and intentions. Enumerating some of his most successful recitations, he came “finally,” to “Not Understood”—“that charming little bit of philosophy by the late Thomas Bracken, which I now give almost every evening. I am hoping to introduce it to an English public some time next year, and I predict for it an instantaneous and unprecedented success.” “Man proposes”—and the gifted and genial entertainer little thought, as he spoke those appreciative lines, that he was never again to see his native land.
