New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-17
LONDON NOTES.
= National Monument to Shake
.osars-Neu Plays at the Theatres.
London, septemhar q

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.-as education there. He has offered SlO.-
hau -. promotion Of a national monument
OOV ,.ae,sare IN London, and actors and men
10 - ara now expressing their views re-
o. - .+s hest site and most artistic form
.v,orfal worthy OF the most distin-
u squre Of English literature. Westmin-
.,tav fs excluded from consideration as
e. she statue designed by Kent, executed
z-,ser,alzers and paid for by public sub
~ -, A.. Pope's time is already IN the Poets
The British Museum also has the
C-.n,,c statue which Garriok bequeathed TO
:. -7t regarded the ideal place for
...1 monument. There is a statue Of
ha'-'---- 60 in leicester Square. but it Is dis
- inferior TO Wards in Central Park. New
- - - Fournier's. in the Boulevard Hauss-
Tbe London County Council is prepared
- sire for really impressive memorial
- IN the Frnbaukraeat Gardens or Ira
- square and probably a better one can
-,-i5e5 along the lire Of the reconstructed
- ,aosi,q from Whitehall 20 Buckingham
-. This has been laid out an imperial
- nth the Victorian memorial al the upper
.-5 and with symbolic groups OF stafuaTy 10
-.,rsee-+ india and the colonies further down.
80 a e-a-ue of Shakespeare would not be out
-. -,,s-s when his fame is. as Sir Henry
7--,-- savs. the most enduring possession o.
.to --relisa eDeaking world Inc great ACTOR ,
t5esl is tie Albert Memorial but that can haFo-
+ IA considered high form OF art; and the
london Shakespeare League has AMBITIOUS
schemes for galleries and horarles s'lillAF 70
49,. connected with the Stafford Memorial
- s,,+,s,-sprjon il advocated by both
= rssgs- and the league but the cheeriest
.-..--,e+ e reluctantly forced TO admit that
s.so -r,7,1d he required before 100000 could
.t.s cor this purpose II the richest capital
OF Europe
g. r5snrv Irving. who lends his great author
A.. - ronuiarity 10 this belated scheme for
+. snlendid national memorial remarks in The
rrsleq-anh- that the greatest statue should
s,sns rhers shakespears's works were written
- -o5,,css and where his reputation was
rna6e Re has faith that great sculptor can
rs found who VII take the undoubtec Inca
r1ents OF shakespeare's face and figure from
Martin Droeshout's half length figure IN the en-
graves grontispiece for the folio of 1923. and in
spire them with some touch OF poetic genius
PerhaDs the best proof OF that engraving is
now IN America; hut there ere various copies
n Il and also paintings based upon II, at STRAIT
ford and IN private collections, and since Ben
Tonson's testimony that the engrayer succeeded
N hitting the poets face Is decisive, II must
be regarded as the most authentic likeness Of
Shakespeare A more impressive statue could
be ideslizsd from other portraits which DO not
resemble the folio engraving or the bust In the
Stafford Church; notably, from the Chaneos
portrait now IN the National Portrait Gallery;
he FELTON, portrait IN the Burdett-Courfs col
lection the Duke OF 6omeTset's Janssens and
the Zucchero portrait in Boston. There is no
lack Of artistic material for a unique statue,
which would symbolic The nasterful genius and
spiendors Of Imagination Of Shakespeare; and
fe ID - n
Keut's feeble hgure IN the Abbey, with one arm
leaning on a series Of volumes and the other
hand claspng a roll bearing the titles OF the
chief Plays. could be easily surpassed.
Il IS vixen ways and means Tor raising the
money for this national memorial are discussed
hat there IS sinking Of heart among Shake
Epearean scholars Sir Henry Irving IS remind
I'd Of the popularity Of The Daily Telegraph's"
testimonial 10 Grace the cricketer. and also OF
The shilling war fund, and wonders whether
millions Of pennies may not be collected from the
ends Of the empire and from the grateful and
generous sons and daughters OF America for
4 monument TO Shakespeare. II a sensitive
tourist finds himself shiTering when the cab
men a. stratford shout themselves hoarse IN
competing FOR the privilege OF doing up Shake
gpeare for two siillings" the devout worshlpper
II the chief shrine Of English literature shriuks
rom exposure 70 the vulgar cadging Of a penny
y q shilling subscription for national rnonu-
nent 10 the grea test benefacter Of the stage
Shakespeare viii not be honored by competition
sith popular cricketer as a drawing card FOR
public charity. Actors are convinced that the
killings would speedily cease TO come in, and
hat they themselves would be expected 10 piece
'ut the failing subscriptions with special mat
ness and benefit performances. Mr. Badgers
generous offer IS not likely 10 be taken up and
imported with sufficient heartiness 10 remove
2e reproach Of national neglect Yet Il 81 an
Escnonate tribute from an old STAFFORD
Iehoolboy 70 Walter Roche's famous pupil who
Tspt Ike snail unwiIlngly 10 school and
earned his Laun from Lrys rusty grammar.
As Shakespeare found his Latin tags there so
ae quoted them In Merry Wives" and Loves
-eoour Lost" and once. al least. with a curious
1iAprint which was in the grammar but not in
ne original text Of Terence where a learned
enoisr like Bacon would have looked for the
passage
The most successful Of the new plays is
Beauty and the Barge" produced by the Hay
Rerket company ar the New Theatre. Mr..
'eeona IS tae Marryat % the day. and the salt
~ and fresh wind blow through his stories.
captain BARLEY Is one Of the brightest. jolliest
$40 least responsible Of old sea dogs, end a
most serviceable figure for mirthsome farce.
snue al he women OF his acquaintance are IN
" win him. Mr. cyril Maude has found IN
Is whimsical character OF the skipper OF the
+--H IN Hand an eccentric part well suited
Als comedy style, and It promises 70 be as
.pA2r an representation as The Second IN
aaha" The first night audience laughed
az river talk and farcical amOurs and was
y bright spirits By the hunor and charm
sparkling nautical romance. II there were
1nnest Of plots and the slightest OF sto-
mere were most amusing people on the
Aa-te and ~ the old shin Inn and tbo S,,r