New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-07

ne same spot with the OF John shakespeare
fcoman winning his wey in by wit OF pennies one
day he Is big enough to be OF service to Burbage q
Perkyn. Then lie steps to the theater oil the "Gobe
IN London; and next to that great globe ITSELF which
Shen it shall dissolve" can scarcely destroy the nam'
and fame of him who was its finest interpreter looked
closely OF tho little gpsys about the msy sdcshow, but
must confess that did feel apprehension that there
was any "mute inglorious" Shakespeare among them
Lightning does not strike twice in the same place says
the proyerb and that two such wondrous swans " ~
adorn the Avon is scarcely to DO expected ien bo
pleasant to feel tha. Che Same old times OF
,a,pe old play of hfe-the running Avon
"The whining schooiboy with bis satcheL
And shining morning face creeping hAe '""A
UnwiIlingly to school,
are ever old md ever new and that after oil
did but utter the prelude of the w0ndrous I1ainu's
that must yet DO unfolded from her glorious orcuoS"
Yes there ore hearts prophets, LoTc n''y ''"''
That slumbcr vet In uneFca''a GUS,
Ordained to Ere the daring sous o. os "a .h
With every charm OF wisdom hio o. "V''n'
Crdsi,.ed 10 lieht with intellectual Day
The may wheels Of Nature ss t"ef pN'
Or warm with Fsncy's energy to glow, ,
And rival even Shakesreaie hero below
Altar all scratch TIE England Of to-day. and You shall
and the England Of three centuries age; little e"bed
and wished il is true but still nearly enough the same
20 iustiIy his dramatic photography. Why this very
Precautionary nat with committees ard sries between
artists who should play this, who that has evoked
ii, the PLAYERS in the tedious brief scene Of young
.amns and his love Thisbep The part OF Justice
Shallow not having been arranged for, here voluntarily
,teps forward the very nan In the Mayor OF Carsie
Mr. Caleb HodGson " no having been invited to take
some part in the great fesYlty, Indignantly uecnnes
alleging that Shakespeare clever man. but
might have turned his talents to better advantage
Nay the whole watch. with Bottom thrown IN Would
ee to be present Old Carlisle for in of the pn-
pers OF that city have this appeal; Let US Support
eur worthy Mayer, and all who are coDsclentous) con
cerned. against theatrical entertainments as se0uetNe
and dangerous and take no part IN the celebration @
he birthday of mere literary stage oetor. now IL Is
DOT every age that knows its stupdest man. SO iet Us
DO thankful and let admire the genius Hh,l
reaehes over three centuries and still translates the
Bottoms into their oranial manifest atons Ahd yer
am not that do not like tins Baeotlah siste OF
mind better than the suicc of iusoe and uapprecia
i've admiration which pours in daily and which re-
,epbcs nothing much as that wreehed daup OF Whte
paint with which years ago Malone covered me Dust OF
Shakespeare in the Church Inch until then haG shoWli
the very color Of the bards face eyes and lalr ana
iress
In Paris the Shakespeare Tercentenary seems to be
ulning as everything else that reaches that capial
aoes into profound political question. The theater o.!
he Porte So Martin had determined 10 Celebrate the
week with putting on the stage Hamlet Henry ~. ana
part OF the Midsummer Nights Dream. But our old
friends, the authorities. intorfered. Hamlet Was
Dane and tight not some persons force by eunnngly
devised applause political sense Sehieswis sense Sc
example mil ht he supposed the soliloquy of Denmark
itself personifed in Iamet-the present conflict beng
matter Of life and death with her. Then the battle q,
Shrewsbury, in Henry ". might it not kndle the war
spiritf And then when Iitania ooys' the " ami4be
face" Of Bottom, might not the eylldsIOsed see IN IL
picture of La Belle France cnamored OF certain f-y !
P-rs-agef So ali was prohibited The theater pro.
posed substitute OthcllO But Othoo was genera!
In the service of the Venetian Republic, anu might NOT
the name OF Venice revive memories OF certain lDcrbl
promises fulhied So Shakespeare Is suppressed
al Paris; indeed it becomes serious qnestion ~hetaer
having expelled Stansfed and removed Garbaldl, NG'
p0leOn may hot next demand the suppression Oi Sikc
pesre anniversaries here in England. That Albion
tories would withhold that anything else from otI
ally is not TO be seriously thought VI Of course But
!, LpcfstnH Will iae TINT
with the English people their great names OF the Pc 81
constitute that which is nearest Of all things TO THEN
hears-nearer even than their present living interests
and men. What the Englishinan feels about Shekes
poarc is fully told in this passage from Ilo1aS CaTyie
(Which Englishnsn ever made in this land Of OUR
which millions Of Lnsshmtn' would T we not ave y
highest dgntsTes that would not se for n lie Is I'M
d %e oTs:nt to an RDr.S hsscd ws
item there which would not surrender raher ha him
Tmn;ps or yon shsiespearel YOU English never have
Indian Empire, have mad Shakespeare. ieay
sns~er i. saiei.i Language; part horld
be found to answer Indian Eupre-no Indsn hmIne; "
sny rate some day; bat then does he ssi
forever with We cannot give W Shakespeare
This old town Of Stratford built one Of The Old mil
iary roads constructed by the Romans during their oc
cupation of the country were in ITSELF not un"oTt,
attention and this beanfrl avon River was once red
dened with tie blood which s,Ieamed at the battles
Naseby and Evcsham; but who ever thinks OF Romans
or baitleiields when he comes 10 tbs spot
What is kRopB Of SAakl speaIe personally JLat NJ
was born in this village Apill2 lii tat ms father
was poor: that be married Ann Hathaway who wa'
seven years his senior and that their first chnd wac
born six months after marriages that he went a. Lon
don at the age Of eighteen. and was connected with t
Globe Theaier that by acting. managing, and writing
saved up money; that he built house In STRAIT
ford and there 20 live about l6S thet e was th
companion of Ben johnson; that his eldest daughter
Susanna was married IN 1917 TO John Hall aphysiciaI
OF Stratford that lie died in 1916 on the 2Di Of ApIi
uhe day Of his BIRTH Judge from the register
burial" April 23 VIII Shakespeare gent in tnos'
few lines reader all iftcd otradtion coneule 500
stories and much else TO be noticed here ter III thu
correspondence that is positively known Of Tins man
summed up.