Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-18

Venice when he says Hear me Gratiano, etc Again observe how clearly Bassanio defines Portias character in the same play when he says, In Belmont is lady richly loft, etc. Look for the charm and poetic imagery of his metaphor and you will find yourself delighted be- Eond measure with the exquisite de licaeY and beauty of his genius. Re call for instance the Queen Nab speech from Romeo and Juliet as an example o1 imagination, delicate poetic tracery and metaphorical humor. And so we see reflected in Shakespeare's genius. nature in her myriad lights and shadows. beauties and complexities, clearly aad #o.f derfully portrayed, if We will enly seek it ont As rare Ben Johnson said
 Soul of the Aeet The apglause, Delight! The wonder of onr stage, My Shakespeare rise. 1 will not lodge thee by Chaueer. or Spencer. or bid Beaumont lie little further to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without tomb,
 Lines We May Cherish.
 \Fa in the number ot bosom lines-of lines that We may cherish in our i DosaHls and that seems almost q if they had grown thereof lines that, like bosom friends are ever at hand to comfort, counsel, and gladden. us under all the yieissitudes of life. As our own Emerson has so con sumately estimated him:
 What point of morals. of man ners, of economy, of philosophy. of religion, of taste, of the conduct Of life. has he not settled, What mys tery has he not signifei his knowl edge of? What office, or function, or district of mans work has he not taught state as Talma taught Ma poleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delieacy? What lover has he not ontloVed! What gentleman has he not in- structed in the rudeness of his be havior?
 ITO Shakespeare the intellect of the world speaking in divers accents app]ies with one accord his own words: How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In apprehension how like a God!
 But great as the poet is, the influence of his genius is more powerful because he has given it to us in the form of drama, the | world, greatest art, embracing as it does all of the other arts and appealing to us through dramatic instincts which are part of our very ego, for we are all actors on the stage of life, innately portray ing comedies and tragedies in the exhibition of our human thoughts and actions, because life is dramatic. Recall how forcibly he expresses his thought so frequently in his plays.
 An Appeal For Pure English. In conclusion, MT. Hackett said: II want to make an appeal for better use of pure English, for be- lieve that it rests with the students, teachers, and actors of America, to preserve if possible this beautiful | language of ours from ruin and de- generacy. for into these paths it is slowly but surely going. It is the nature of our Yankee citizen to take all the short cuts they can, but it is a shame and an outrage to hear the l English language being initiated as it is in the United States. As the stage, the schools, and the colleges take the highest places in our civil ization as educators and workers for better things, so do l believe them capable Of saving the purity and beauty of the English language, if they will only strive to speak pure and direct English
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