New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
THE TEMPEST"

GEORGE. G1ssINt5 ON HIS F>voRrrE Play
From An Author at Grass in The For-nisht.y
Review.
To-day I have read The Tempest II is per-
haps the play that l love best. and, because
seem to myself to know it so vel, l coIiilloE5 I
pass it over in opening the book Yet as always,
in regard to Shakespeare. having read Il Vi-C-
more | find that my knowledge was less cum
pIete than L supposed 50 II Wot-1 pe, NV eerils 10
long as one might SO il would ever ne VIZ
one had strength to turn the pages ana d Ni''-
left to read them. -. -.
I like to believe that this was the poets hst
work that he wrote it in his home IN Stratigluii
walking day by day in the helIs "hlgh - - =
taught his boyhOOd to love rural fnS-'tnu- -, -
ripe fruit Of the supreme maslI' tl'' & Iifs
craft of the master hand. For q man "t-sg tllh
business it has been 70 study tHe + E-.'7b +bs
tongue. what joy can equal that OF ii'--h.-7 -s.s
happy ease WhereVith ShdkeST cd1" SUI li''l-t
in mere command of words every ali-7'-.S
even of those who. apart from A.-..- .'- ~
| could fancy that. in The Ir-A3SS1'e +bf4
wrought with peculiar c"Is' .',..l ~. f,r;,itv
power. smiling as the word Of InlInIt@D-l Lfs-
the phrase of inCOmpardble cadence N''S+-s We
pered to him by the Ariel that was rs tin,-
He seems to sport with language % ana, ION
self with new discovery of its resources, ~
king To beggar. men OF every ram o.. % h. ms
order of mind have spoken with MS l-I9 - Rim
uttered the lore of fairyiand, no" ID l-TH' me
to create being neither man Nov - -. and 10
thing, between brute and human h.lt1lV' IDS
endow its purposes with WoEuS' -1vrr7ins
how they smack of the Iil'i7t - .---',or rise
a4rtb ,f th,. life, of creatures Jna- ,,,rA.
above the soil. We 90 not thInN .l n snort in
we stint our wonder because w - I.sara Us.
appreciation. y miracle Is WoINsl - f5rliIiar
and We scarce give heed; II ms ~ u.I,.- rlarvels.
to our minds rs any other OF i-Llu-
which rarely pause to rene ,tlsst rredi-a-
..Tha TernpeSt'' contains the H'o'1,hf-b en-
tive massage in all the pldyS-th'tl ard is
bodies Shakespeare's final view ~ ,-o,,Id sum
the inevitable quotation or an ~ contains his
IIo+ e~nnisite Iyrics his tenderest love mot
and one glimpse of fairyland ~---Ii,.ss ~---OI Of A
but think-outshines the utmost trsrsros fare
Midsummer Nights Dream - eta1dinS
Ill 70 the elves OF hills brooks - are
lakes and groves" Again a IilI' ~ rsnetition-
things which cannot be Stalcd oS are ever
Inns Itiis' -, oftan as YOU will. they 60, II
fresb as though new minted from l'1-sr tnT drooP
the poet Being perfect theH - = fIr, the per-
under that safety whicn al rs, ~, never be So
~ e @tioiI, eavorrd as to have no iul'5O
s-IIsto for the next approach hitch lake me
Among the many reasons W. one Of the
- 80 bava heen born in England - o0 ,,other
first is that | read Shakespeare ~ ~, . ON +. who
tongue II try to imagine my - hears him
,e,1t l,novv him face to face, WHO - oc,ents
CANNOT hIIo I.,, from afar and that IN Is,rc9 1sN
which only through the ElpollllS ,1. nDon nle
can touch the living soui ua1t tlea1 Of Gireary de-
n sense of chill diScOuraSemeh.' % 7 can read
ar;watiop 1 am wont To think lha' fr,s him
Uorner and assuredly. if any ih.th Sar, that
IL is / but can I for a moihehe bis word is
- - = xiaids me all his music. that hIS ,Tuanic
., Y,Ie os To- him who walked DS tl.I t..at there
shore when Hellas lived: L III MI w more than
me across the vast or time 10 - IvouId
faint and broken echo: knoW S; 1nar With n those
be fainter still but for its blehulns .irnn,er OK
N,,,Hr;es OF vOuth which are as q SiilIl S, tav.
the worlds prineval glory Let every itse,f all
ioy of its poet the poet IS the n tbt jncorr-
its greatensS and it's sweetness <ltA - q ma die.
nunicabIa heritage for which men i've a. ossass
AS close the book love and reverenug me-, 10 the
me whether does my full heart tUili I,bicb he
great enchanter or to the island upon pnt think
has laid his spell? 1 know not caIlllo' coy-ak-
of them aDart In the love and reverence ~ ii
ened by the voice OF voices ShaAeSpe
England are but one-