to reap a lesson from the incident was made by saying that his last words were, There is another and a better world. It was said, too, that this phrase, which occurs in the third act, was to be placed on his tomb. However, Whitfield (who played Baron Steinfort) told Frederic Reynolds that Palmer fell in Whitfield's presence, meaning it was later than these lines in the play. A benefit for his children was held in Liverpool, an address by William Roscoe being spoken, this realised a considerable sum. A benefit at the Haymarket Theatre on 18 Aug. brought nearly £700; a third was given on 15 September, the opening night at Drury Lane, when the Stranger was repeated. Palmer is buried in the parish churchyard of Walton near Liverpool. Roles One of the most versatile as well as the most competent and popular of actors, Palmer played an enormous number of characters, principally at Drury Lane. John Genest's list, which is far from complete, and does not even include all Palmer's original characters, amounts to over three hundred separate parts. Except singing characters and old men, there was nothing in which he was not safe, and there were many things in which he was foremost. An idea of his versatility may be obtained from a few of the characters with which he was entrusted. These include: Welborn in A New Way to Pay Old Debts Face in The Alchemist Pierre Mercutio Iachimo in Cymbeline Iago Bastard in King John Slender Teague Trappanti Young Marlow Jaques Buckingham in Henry VIII Ford Ghost in Hamlet Hamlet Colonel Feignwell in A Bold Stroke for a Wife Bobadill Valentine and Ben in Love for Love Comus, Petruchio, Lofty in The Good-Natur'd Man Puff in the Critic Lord Foppington in The Relapse Lord Townly Falstaff in the Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Part 1 Touchstone Henry VIII Inkle Macduff Macbeth Octavian in the Mountaineers Shylock Prospero Doricourt in The Belle's Stratagem and innumerable others. Not less numerous are his original characters. Of these three stand prominently forth, the most conspicuous of all being Joseph Surface, which seems never to have been so well played since; Almaviva in Spanish Barber, and Dick Dowlas. Other original characters include: Colonel Evans in The School for Rakes Captain Dormer in A Word to the Wise Dionysius in Arthur Murphy's Grecian Daughter Leeson in the School for