New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

fresbing common sense. In speaking of the
practice of reading Shakespeare chroIooSIcaIIy
he said: If you study Shakespeare in that way
all the Bacon rot and stuff of that sort drops OIL
YOUR back like water. If you go through 'n9
plays in chronological order you seo ri 90
the mans personality, and must ackho"ituse
that he is the greatest genius IN literature
Dr FurnivaI recalled the fact that Robert
Browning read Shakespeare at his request, slll4,
having read the plays. said to his friend: am
impressed by the royal ease Win Whch Ine
man walks up to his throne We are strus
Cling and trying to get along. put thlS iIlait ma.
walks up with a swing to his place anu SI.S
down and there he is" Still, Matthew AIIiolu i
was briefer. Others abide our que9'io"' '
art free"
The furry at Standardization concerning
the proposed tearing away q four cQt.aSF5 " "
enlarge the garden of Shakespeare ; blI
and to build a free library part Of the site
is thought by many persons to be superHuou,s:: -:
\ CORRESPONDENT of The London StdhdAIu
saws: The library committee. their contrI-
button to the controversy, have Simply thIOVH
open the public the premises marked IoI IT, r.
mOyaI. and a careful examination gives IilS
Lest possible reply to the sentimental pFote9t9-
Two of the cottages, although built only soi.ie
sixty wears ago are absolutely unsafe at the
back a detailed examination OF the houses III
Henley-st. shows that they are all modern.
varying in age from two or three years 70 as
much as sixty eighty Inere are Only Two
half tmb bered buildings in the street apart from
that which is to be preserved in the free IDTilIy
scheme and these others about thirty
years old that it is OsUTd 20 talk or preSt-IF
ing relics of antiquity i Henley-St- Medn"Illle'
the abused local authorities are doing WHAT JITy
can. as they have done for years. TO save the
really antique. The crumblInS fapric ol IHe
Guild Chapel is being treated with an Invisible
preservative. and individual decayed stones are
being replaced So far only as safety demands.
the uncOvering of the timbered fronts OF the
ancient almshouses IS just being completed
Private effort has also done good work during
the last few months in uncOvering an exceed
ingly fine timbered house at the corner OF TINS
street and Ely-st in unn1askInS some OF the
hOn, at he ~
Hgh-st and in rehanging the ancient sign or
the Falcon Inn opposite the site Of the house
where Shakespeare died
Dean Marryat Of Adelaide. South Australia.
is the nephew of the sailOr-novelist, Captain
Narryat One of the stories which this Clerl-
cal dignitary is fond of telling is about SUNDAY
school boy whom he once presented book
as a reward and announcement Asked some
time afterward how he liked it, the young Aus
traIian replied. oh, it's all right; but nothing
like so good NIidshipman Easy and them
other yarns of yours
The revival Of interest in Carlyle means the
publication of various new books, some OF Whlch @
seem to be hardly necessary The two volumes
of CaTye's own letters will be more or iess
welcome. but We can hardly say the same OI
the projected short biography or of the new
book by the author of Mr. Froude and car
lyle.
II pleasant paper in THE Criterion" on
Bayard Taylor, Mr.. Murat Halstead notes one
of the pPCuliarItleS of that DrlllllnL MAN. 1t
was his dislike of the way the average person
pronounced his first name He hated 10 De
introduced as the great American traveller,
wiIcing at that every time; and he did not Ike
to be reminded of Views AfOOt' by admirers
He cured of that for u while, when, as
minister to Germany, he met President Grant
AMI Mrs. Grant their arrival at Berlin, and
the great general said to his good wife: You
remember Mr.. TayIor's book, Views Afoot,"
was the first present L gave you
Robert Brownings sister. saranna died in
Florence April % in her ninetieth year. Her
vigor of mind lasted to the end of this long
life. The poet wrote of her in 1866: "AH her
life has been spent in caring for my mother,
and seventeen years after that my father"
After that fathers death she remained with her
brother and his son, and in PENS" house she
died. 1.-THE Atheneuu'' says of her: Mother,
father brother nephew-her life given to
each in turn with devotion perfect that it
seemed natural and was. indeed, the expression
of a nature in which there was no thought of
self. Not that there any want of individu-
ality in her charaCter-far from it. Her friends
have said that during her brothers life she
was content somewhat to efface herself behind
his vigorous and vivaciOus personality; but GER
tainly in her latter years she had vigOr and
vivacity of her which heightened the charm
of her sweet and most unselfish disposition"
Contemplating the field of literature. THE
Academy" grows melancholy withaL If every
year." it says adds to the readers of scraps and
snippets, while it takes away from the narrow
ing number of intellectual readers. if an unlet-
tered democracy is balanced by unettered
aristocracy, the cause lies in the deepening
materalsn of the age, the race for wealth. the
struggle to live Men who will not take time