Excerpt from Thesaurus of the Arts: Drama, Music, Radio, Painting, Screen, Television, Literature, Sculpture, Architecture, BalletAbbott, Jacob (1803 American author of juvenile books including The Rollo Books (28 The Franconia Stories (10 The Marco Paul Series (6 vols): his works comprise more than 200 titles.Abbott, Keene (1876 American novelist and writer of short stories in which the scenes are laid in the great plains of the Southwest: he dis plays a rare degree of sympathetic understanding in his novels, A Melody in Silver (1911) and Wine 0' the Winds. Mabel Avery Abbott, his wife, has written excellent short stories, and a novel, Captain M artha M ary.Abbott, William (1798 English actor who appeared with William macready at the covent garden theatre in 1816. He organized a com pany in 1827 headed by Henrietta smithson and Macready, that presented Shakespeare in Paris, resulting in the mad infatuation for Miss Smith son on the part of the French composer, Hector berlioz, which ended in an unhappy marriage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.