Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-16
Quayle Feathers.
Fluttering Down from Bishop Quayle'
Lecture Upon a Journal
Editors Notebook.


Editors Notebook.
Bishop QauyIe has an idea that, in
the course of 200 years Browning will
be considered the greatest poet, next
to Shakespeare, who wrote in the Eng
| lsh tongue.
You do not like the Jew but he is an
| interesting character in history. He
existed when Rome was child on the
Seven Hills. He lived when Caesar
was no more. vivid and vital. He
overran the world with everlasting
youth in his eyes. He cannot stay in
the grave if you put him in. He be-
came the banker of Europe and now
no King or Car can go to war with
out first asking the permission of
! Jew In Shakespeare's day it was
the fashion to despse them just as it
was in the time of Bassanio and
Portia in Venice What Shakespeare
thought of him. when he put him in
| Shylock's rags, one cannot judge.
Shakespeare loves the women. All
men love the women because they are
not men. Some of Shakespeare wo
| men might be queens in hell, yet
Shakespeare seems to like them. He
| loved them all You cannot ferret out
| the preferences of Shakespeare for his
male characters. You cannot tell
whether he loved Falstaff OR hated
him, but he placed in Falstaff the most
lamazing intelligence. Falstaff was so
fat that he larded the ground as he
walked along. He sweats genius.
Falstaff not only larded the green
earth but he sprinkles the air with
| sparks of genius. He had more brain
than the king, yet he ruled over
| wenches and scullions. And Shylock,
you cannot tell what Shakespeare
| thought of him. but Shylock was
prejudiced man. Shakespeare put
into him a mountainous intelligence.
Sometimes one is in a room filled
with people and there is one man
present in whom you are interested.
so interested. that even though all the
others go out you see only him and
are not aware of the fact of the alb
sence of all Others
So with Shylock. his individuality
overtowered them all
BaSsanio. in his fine toys. purchased
on borrowed money. on the promise to
pay providing he married the woman
he got the toys to spark. is an inter
esting though cheap creature. He
seems like a duke. Nowadays an
English duke will court rich Ameri-
can girl for her big pocketbook. He
will even marry the girl if he cannot
otherwise get the book. l don't like
all this boasting by English noblemen
Of their ancestral blood. I don't like
this pride of ancestry. If Englishmen
were more noble and had more manli-
ness and less pride in their forbears
they would cause less scandal to make
the English speaking world ashamed
Bassanio was so cheap that he
smeled bad.
There was Lorenzo. Mary. Jessica
all the rest. fascinating Municipalities
because they were at honeymoon.
Lovers and love-making everybody
loves. 1t is even pleasant to be
snubbed by young lovers. They are so
stewed in their own love affairs that
if you don't look out they will walk
right over you and forget to pick you
up.
We have all of us gone love- making.
or are going, or want to go. 1t is
beautiful period in mans or wo-
mans life. 1t is the imperial occupa-
ton of heaven.
Lorenzo and Jessica spent their time
looking at each other-Amen' Lor-
EMO talked of the beautiful moonlight,
the stars Jessica said. Yes" Wo-
men in love never talk of the stars
and the moon. 1t is the men who go
incoming around
But the brilliant lights of gas or
electricity are not suitable for love.
You can see too plainly the wrinkles
and the powder on his face. Moon
light is the best for sparkling, Jes-
sca said Yes" when Lorenzo talked
of the moon.
When man and a woman go on a
honeymoon. the woman always agrees
to everything sthe man says. and that
is the only time she does.
The merchant Antonio was a great
man in commerce. I love the makers
of commerce. They thrill like the
touch of lightning They send to the
corners of the universe to obtain their
goods in trade. But Antonio spat
Shylock in the face and therefore, was
not a gentleman.
A gentleman is man who shakes
hands on the level with everybody he
meets. For him there is no prejudice
of race.
Shylock lifts up his head like a sea-
crag, glowering, murderous. He
caused men to fear. You cannot laugh
at Shylock Sword in hand he feels
around for the others heart. There
are some who, in their rage, threaten
and might be able to stab a loaf of
bread If such a one threatened Won.
you'd giggle. Of Shylock one is
afraid.