New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-13
Literary Neavs and Criticism
mrs Asquith. the wife Of the new Pr,m. Min
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MARGoT
Sp men nj Parliament ceases and comes the recess
AS rels seek in the country distress
but make an exception in favor of Margot.
For i f9s brings such treasure of movement and
Fun. spirit and stir. to folk weary with ztr,f..
ihousn young and though fair. who can hold such
OF all the good qualities going. as Margot?
Up t M. and down dale: It's capital name
There's bun nns srehhaship to sparkle liz fame:
Its likeness in rhynns. not meanng. to arsot s0''
w.
Mssep o MIND meyer mind will give it the slip;
rs hpt Aoot the language. but Argo the Ship:
Niiu' oy sea or by land, l will swear you may
Before you hit on double for Marsot.
MI. F. w. Grey, writing on the race question
In that Canadian periodical. THE University
Magazine" has something interesting to say
concerning the civilization of English speaking
Sanada Our Canadian civilization" he de-
eiares, influenced largely, and In a great meas
ure unconsciously, by the presence in our midst
of the descendants Of seventeenth century
French colonists, and still more appreciably by
CeaSlng,
II IL mas not already ceased, to be Anglo Saxon
In any sense in which that epithet can Justly be
applied:
as that Of our neishbors the south-wiseiy or
ORIGINAL and it is only the presence of the French
a ws s5Sng ely attached to the older european
retard the process of development into new
world; that is. into definitely American clviliza-
non. 10 say so much as this is not. however, to
auo h mat as recent visitor appears to fear.
ton from distant centre Of empire, and as
seross % With nth if not int that Of our ceusns
plssss that he being sransPlantsa to soil and
forms widely differing. outWardiy. If not essen
Quebec be se last Stronghold on 4ha
continent of ideals and traditions social and:
fss British Than French less than "a,
ehurchmen of Virginia, Of Puritan New England.
Essentially. since in their ultimate terms they
cpes rs that the fear Of the G LORD is The be-
ginning Of wisdom: and. secondly. that any sys-
into its component elements, spiritual. mental and
ton NV - " ~ ~
Mr. Richard Harding Davis's new story. Vera
the Medium will be brought out in book form
in June It is TO be supposed that it holds a
surprtse-at least this is limited In the foreshad-
owed climax Of the final seance"
Shakespeares birthday was celebrated at
Stafford this year in the midst of a mixture
OF rain and snow. The ceremonies began with
the playing Of the national anthems Of many
lands ~ the town band. Then the British ma
tonal anthem was sung by the Stratford school
children. done up in r,uf1ers. Then, 10 royal
fanfare of bugles score of flags presented by
the nations there represented, were flung to the
raw breeze. An address was given at the
church, and wreaths were laid upon the poets
tomb. The usual performance was given at the
theatre in the evening. "A Midsummer Nights
Dream was the play.
The Shakespeare memorial committee has
finally decided TO arrange Immediately for
competition for a design of an architectural
monument. including a statue to be erected by
1916, the tercentenary of the poets death
Whatever sum-, says the committee, may be
subscribed over and above the amount required
for the monument will be applied to purposes
best calculated to promote the dramatic pres
entation and literary appreciation of Shake
speare's work" The committee adds:
for or against national theatre as the primary
arguments were fully considered by the special
eom tbst tola may however be Convenient
eision arrived at were largely Influenced bv the
sso 6at ahough the matter had been under dis
national theatre in the ordinary of the term
had been accepted by those able TO appreciate the
qlfhcuItles of the problem. The late Sir Henry
Irving estimated that capital of 81 0o0 nao nIoS
be necessary. 100000 '''"--
The proposal for national theatre appeared TO
be fraught with many elements of coptroversv
that the originators of the Shakespeare memorial
movement, who had set first among their aims a
pernanent memorial TO serve the token of a
worId-wide homage to Shakespeare came to the
unanimous decision that the memorial sbonId he
an architectural and symbolical monument At
The same time, in the special committees renorf
the idea of Shakespeare theatre for the further
alce OF dramatic art and literature was singled
OUT from the various proposals for further constd
GRAFTON, as possible subsidiary project If the
ohakespeare Memorial Fund permitted.
This plan seems to us unwise-a single me-
mortal upon which efforts may be concentrated
would seem most interesting TO the general con-
tributor.