New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-10

thinkirg spe,tsor s-d uniyt rally felt aud ditted
by al .oectstor-is foand in the fact o! her physical
exhaustion after rtadirg Hsre i a ls1y. WHO, in
addition to exirs1rjinsry natural powers OF vocal
enoursnce iEs beu in profession. trsning fr ,m her
yop's vet Dot op,y does she 6nd reses" 10 two
bonI reading ndi-peps sbe but a. the close sle is
alwsys otvon.,y overcome by her PHYSICAL sxertion
Oue peed o. wssfe wors in provirg this aoom'asbls
limitation Of buusrity" TO be lrievous fault. How
nuca better snd hoV mn eaier would i, b. for Mrs.
Ke1nble 20 abani1n her stt- zen she sbs docs the
stage and eone oowu to tee simple, natural, coloqud
irterlcc cut6n of real life :
P.rtep.. otter all, these Two 1erelictons OF Mes.
he nbls ale not very s,rsnse. tno.gh rue. STE BAT
follows the convention ,t'es OF her profession and the
really strange thing ~ont be- tat shs bad eoergy 1t
eh-,scter ard strength OF mind sufficient b break
GO ay ir m them.
But wha. is stran. s-pssspg drange-is her insen
sbiIify in very msny rstsncs, to tue meaning Of 81
author whom she he. been all her life studyias.
Som.ih1 more tlan a century ago, Sir Thomas
Harner under the sflaius that bas moved many
sn ZONES, man stoe fe himself called to edit sn
Cd tou of Sh.serpese and in D preface he says tia
l. has made the suusemelt OF his !eis1rs hours
for unn, yesrs past to look over Shaksspsares writ
"ugs witt careful eye, TO Tote tue obscurities aud
"absuloles introduced into the text, and, according
70 tie best OF his judgment, to restore the genuine
" sen,e anc purity of it, This is Gle OF the cases
where piivste ioo gnebt of doubtful e1pedency aod
a, any rate where the proof OF the pudding must
be found in II eating AZ We are proposing to crt
cse Mrs Kembe and 10, Slr ThoInss Hammer we
must for the p,e-ent, deal briefly with Tim, using hi
now only 81 all iustTation.
Ii Macbeth, ior inst.lce, when Rosso annOunce, TO
ri Al. IL. IL ~ Of Carr
the Ttele replies:
"Th- Thane Of Cs-dor lives:
Why do you DIES. me IL borrowed robes"
meaning simply, thst the speaker did not wish to
wesr anCher msn's robes; 20 him, the speaker they
would be "torroSed, ;" the owner being sive to use
them. Bot Hsbuer acting On - the best OF his Juds-
neLt," fouod that this line hal bu. nine syllsbes,
and It wac theiefore one Of the "sbsurdities sfoie
sad SO he ADDED word Of one syllable, and made
the line perfect, thus:
"why do you DIRE" me IL iiS borrowed robes"
Again, in The same play, when one OF the t"o mur-
dsrers says of Bauquo:
My lord, his threat /, cu.i Tia: did for him"
Macbeth rtjoins:
Thou the beet Of The cut.tbrOs:s ys: he,sood
That dio the Ike for f!ssnce'
Here Sir Thomas found the line hsi one syllable too
much ana be therefore exercised his Judgment on
this sbsurdiiy" by striking ou. "the"; thus, again.
making the lire perfect:
"rbou art the best Of threats; yet he's good" kc
The difference bet the two lines is that whereas
TIE former is jus. what Macbeth 10 say, in die
circulating between the two murderer the latter ia
sort of Bo.ery bully exclamation that does not dis
crulibese ct 81.
Ouce again, 10 the same play, after Macduff has
beer informed Of slaughter of hs wife end Children
-. 9Th r,;sf,
words, Malcolm in order to turn the cuiren, Of Mac
duGs thought, says to tue beesved husband and
father:
Dispute 1. like man"
And Macjuff replies, REJECTING for the moment the
remedy OF reverge-
Bu. mu.t also (. it man." nc.
A.. ia this il stsuce-soe the play, for the arrange
ent of the fraction lnes-there "absurdty"
Of metre to be amended, can only conjecture how
Sir Toomas "jud sment" moved to an alteration.
T. L the man did alter. He changed Il word-above
sl wo,ds the rgt one for word above all words the
wrong one. He changed "dspute" to "endnre -
Endure it Ike man"
"A proceeding which, will venture to say, none of
SIR Ibomas's readers will be guilty Of
Toreturn to our mutton, shencs Sr Tommy has too
far withdraw u. l. the reader prepared to believe
that ary human heifg would follow such folly as
this We hope the number Of such people is small; We
90 not know affirm .tivey that The world contains more
than cIe but there is and that one Is The subject
Of OR present strciure,, to wit Mrs KEN le True,
ste inds i, $50 et DO IN" in Harmets Shakespeare;
tue Uaomer's Shakespeare Is pOrtly six-vol lne
dusrto with lsxuous type ard magnificent msrgin;
true Mrs Kemblss identical copy heongei, or is SUP
posed to have beloogei 10 Mrs. Sirdcns; but is all
that any ressoo for cre garding the authority o. every
otter edition Of S akcepeare including all editions of
the plays sbridect for the stsge? Epec'sy IL all
that ary reason for retsllng to American audiences
TIE qusdruely corcerr.ed nonsense Of monomsrisc,
VITO chose, century ago, to set hiHtef up - re-
former of Shakespeare and VITO, IN so doing pro-
fes.,d to have higher guide than bis own jdtsmept
Mrs Kembls is u laiy of pretensiors ht-ra y, dra-
mstic elccurorsry; sni surely the ssst she can of
aod the lea,t her aaoierces s1oud expect 10 Snakes
pssresn readiDs is thorough understanding OF the
laneusge Of Suake-peare.
Dramatic seaiugIs high SIT, and it, professors e'e
boutd to devote 70 IL cultivation ali the ai,s and ap
par ces WITHIN "a eT react; AMI tnen crtei'm has It'
DUTY 10 y rfolm. Excellence 10 th's or any art, vii
never De- s'apei by Superficial study t'e nani,
Iof ~ puflVg on tie cther.
Tas s,tor on the ,tsec h.s 10 sustain ngla part,
ard lis individuality being TINS se,ured for him, t1e
task of tue full deveopuent OF any pafcus' chssHer
IS at least relieved o. conplexty. lie is so far acted
uPoo 10y others thst abstraction from ertraneous hfe
es-y srd by et'ing him elf Ito with the current, ne
ofteR finds ii. part, So 70 speak, playing ITSELF Bdt
tie drmsiic reader b.s Of thes. edyent ou' aids
He must ,u-tain al the pa'ts ami he must not ooly
preeiye in his owD mind, but Make m.aitest to his
audience all the in,ividus.esi wrie every transition