The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-29

%a,a-e ~. Volumes issued within
esyera. three years discussing his
-Ta '- -lr.rts. etc. Two or three
genius. nave been published dur
s.ea resent year. II a man has
rg M +..art Whites large edition
g.cna." ..r Edward DoWden's vol
md Ftt' .a.r life, and Hallowell and
na a-' a--tfon-suCh edition as thus
pms" .r--a-he can get along we'll
hr 6'--'r the tudy OF the greatest
eaau-- ra5t the authors who have
ge..- volumes on shakespeare
I---, Ir DOZENS. 1 peileVe during
COUNT - alone twenty-five or more
Gs-4" ..-l. I have found 1t helpful
aa %. --.rtory to use for daily read
aa- ,.,.e smaller edition in three
Gz W." find in the last twenty
g1.u""...ars have read Macbeth with
.. r.tes eight times. / have read
VA times since 1902. ! have read
Hamlet eight times within the
6s' -s~,,a. using White. l have read
sMs t1rrello and Anthony and Cleo
La. three times each in the same
,e.- .f tfme-fiVe years. These are
.s.--. -reatest plays of all the most
Ls --7.ertly endowed of all writer's
G. lime. In Grants volume of the
I-- between 448th page and
,hc five greatest dramas Of the
&f.. are contained. / find | have
fa.", earlv all of Shakespeare three
f@- within the last five years. If
.I--rr5 live Over my days from my
l-,teti year / would read some
w. hv shakespeare every day save
ma and would never go longer
~ Two years without reading all of
h. plays with the exception or lltus
ladr1rlcuS ana ferlcies. L ave not
,.r-1 would begin with Shakespeare
ttyautv and never let a weekday
mass without reading something IN
kim. # not more than twenty-five
Ines. but generally from 3oo 10 9oo
Ines, he "ouIu. at MY years pe So
aurat.l and toned with the IDEAS,
.-.u-at- words, language of the a
..rt,u?tded by no difficulties
....-r x ali some lines or
c~z.,.tI, represent his trial
S--4ee rs necessities and
"- Buy Whites large edl-
.I.p his three-volume work
f.. ...tl"n. Procure a well-bound
...,kct edition, in some fifteen
that YOU may always have
-t-.r. ,oIume at hand so you can IN
ar.rIoy usefulIy q ten minutes delay
d., r 6rnrer | recall that once at a
boarding house over thirty years ago,
| found a fine copy of Walter SCOTS
EtiiglJtQI Lady OF Ine LAKE. anu
~a'-r vufting for three, five or ten
mj7utae for the dinner bell. | read
"r,.lru.e in six Wee<S and Y en-
loved it before with 50 much
~~..4 Lues. Ny advice to young
men Of education is to read Shakes
,-ar. certainly every day. l do not
5.rar5 here to undertake to discuss
the great poet. l am only giving d
H.. auts. If you have any real rel
ish for nOetry read his "SonnetS," in
r5mber l54. They are most original.
and of their kind among the richest
and greatest.
BEADING King Lear the other day, l
was reminded that the bruta football
game vas in force i'll Shakespeares
tine. more than three hundred years
In the play OSWALD says, LII ho1 oe
struck, my lord Kent replles. MOI
ripped neither, you pase lootodii
player. In h same marVelously
great play King Lear dellVers nm =.
sell Of d thal ntteu Wei -
the days of the dramatlst' ana WI
well suit our country anu
VJajus age. l quote a rev lines:
Through tattered clothes sihall
vices disappear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all Plate
WITH gold
Ana the strong lance OF 1"stice noi'
less ao.e
ann 1t III p1snlS . 9"" wv
pierce IL.
:
leading S~hakespeare every Jay l
instantly meet WIN phrases, VI Pc :
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