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Copyright 1915. BY WHITE.
There IL some ground for dispute
whether Q purely objective and therefore
essentially prcsaic drama Is more effective
as a criticism of life. or a poetical and
therefore moro or less subjective drama.
Shall We choose. as masters Of reality.
Ibsen or Shakespeare. Sophocles or Emile
Aug1er? I for one should expect TO find
moro truth. moro reality. more perma-
nence, in the poetical drama, for the reason
given above. namely because the high pitch
Of excitement on the authors part which
the composition OF poetry involves renders
him more likely to reveal depths OF feeling
in himself and the common ground OF feel
ing Of which all men have a share. Certain
kinds Of creative power may perhaps be a.
fully shown In the prose drama as in tho
poetic but the full tide OF passion runs
stronger in poetry.
The advantage of Shakespeares drama.
not only over crude life. therefore. but
over prose fiction and prose drama. lies
in his power of selecting and arranging
his material in such a way as to create a
representation or imitation Of reality. and
to form a whole such as nature seldom
presents, and capable Of conveying the
authors deepest thought and feeling.
Rarely IL ever. in our individual lives. Is
there a day or sequence Of days hlled
with single great action fully rounded
cut and unobscured by trivial or extra
neous events. Less infreuuently, yet rarely
also. do we observe in actual life men and
women who stand not for themselves
alone but for classes.
The dramatist can create these unified
actions and increase in imagination the
proportion Of such persons. lie can by his
processes OF selection. condensation and en-
phasis bring before us the standards. rules
heroes and examples most needed by us for
the conduct OF our lives.
The eminrncc Of Shakespeare is due to
many qualities. the interestingness OF his
plots. the music of his lines. the picture
making magic Of his phrases. his knowl-
edge of many things, the romantic natures
and situations OF his characters, SC. His
popularity, which is quite another thing.
and very great and very real. is due chiefly.
I think. to "a general acknowledgment that
his pages are filled with valuable concrete
illustrations Of life and furnish. as Mr.
Moulton aptly puts it. IAN experimental
side to the philosophy of life"
In attempting to disensage some Of the
moral or philosophical values of shake
speare's works We must never forget that
he was an artist creating freely and there
fore primarily interested in his creations
rather than in the differences that may be
drawn from them in perfectly legitimate
though by him probably unforeseen way.
He was not a systematic philosopher. We
need not expect. therefore. that his moral
judgments will cohere elements of a
system. though We may perhaps discover
that they cohere as expressions of an in
dvldual personality. The: may not he sys-
tenatc, but they probably will not be self
contradictory.
] am aware of the danger of attributing
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James X. Hackett and Viola Allen
in the banquet scene in their
performance of Macbeth"
at the Criterion Theatre.

actcr working under the conditions i'm
posed by aCtui. life. ! have in mind par
tculariy the English history plays, for the
Roman history plays had Their course
som,wha less determined by a desire to
conform t" a larg and complex mass of
facts" Iutarch. who was as much
Literary artist as chronicler of fact.
having already half moulded the material
into artistic unity.
ln form Richard III" and Richard H."
ar" tragedies and the Henry ~" and
"iionry v" plays are comedies; but this
affects their contents remarkably little.
Ns moral studies / tind the romanccs and
farces least cdifyng, the tragedies next.
ami tho history paes and true comedies
most ,difyins. The history plays and true
comedies are sufficiently ideal 10 merit Sid
ncy's praise of poetry, and yet not too
remote from reality; closer to reality, it
seems to me, than the tragedies. The
ShakeSpearian mould for tragedy is, in a
formal sense, very narrow. king or other
great parsonage is defeated and brought To
a violent death through the cooperation OF
a hostile external force with an internal
fault. Romeo and Juliet is an exception.
In comedy he took greater latitude. In
history plays greater latitude was forced
upon him by the facts"
Acceptance of fact il ono Of the chief
ways in which a man can prove faithful:
for the intellect and the will are closely
connected. and there is great weight in the
Socratic doctrine that knowledge Is virtue.
1t is as much a part of our duty to seek
the truth as to stand for the truth when
we have found il. Men of science have
been ever forward in perceiving this rule
of the moral life, and many of them have
made great sacrifices in order 10 follow II.
The history plays have special value as
'howing in how far Shakespeare took
pains to ascertain facts, and with what de-
gree OF reverence he treated facts, We
know precisely whore he found them, and
can easily discover to what extent he felt
bound by then, or what liberties he fo!;
justified In taking with them In writing
the history plays he was subjecting him
self TO severe requirement; he was bend
ing to the yoke OF the actual,
The actual Is different from the real
Both are different from the ideal. Romeo
is no less real than Prince Hal. Both are
ideal also. But Prince Hal Is, in addition
'ctual. Here, We perceive, shakespeare
was restricted by his regard for the data
il the chronicles upon which hc based the
Henry plays, This restriction is even more
apparent in Henry W." where the action
is delayed and the patience of the audience
severely taxed while Shakespeare deals
with the charges Of vain ambition and
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approved who do not All their stations
faithfully.
His approach to life varies according
70 the class Of play: he has tragic key
and a comic key. We may go further
and say that his so-called comedies are OF
at least three kinds with respect to tho
angle Of approach TO moral questions
comedy proper. where he is humorous and
mildly satirical, yet true to life In all
that concerns right and wrong behavior;
farce, where some Of the rules that govern
the game Of life are supposed to be sus-
pended. and romances. where the poet Is
slack in his attitude. such as the great
four mentioned above. all Of them unsatis-
factory in certain features both as works
cf stagecraft and as moral studies, except
THE Tempest" which occupies a unique
position as his valedictory.
And then there remain the history plays.
in which he did not have his hand entirely
free as regards plot, but which are most
satisfactory as studies OF human char
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cruelty brought by history against the
King. Shakespeare was willing to risk the
success Of q great play In order to give
hearing to awkward and almost unmanage-
able allegations against his hero.
But tho history plays also gave him .
certain freedom, as compared with trag-
edies and comedies proper; the loose struc-
ture permissible in the history play allowed
him to express himself more freely than
the more conventional forms. We may
fairly look in them for a more outspokcn
uttcrancc OF personal opinion. especially
in scenes where he departs from his au-
thorities. for In such instances he Is his
own guide, choosing arbitrarily and Great
ing freely.
In matters Of historical importance he
shows great respect for his sources and is
.,tremely scrupulous; in matters that con-
Germ only human character In detail. on
the other hand ne filings history aside or
interprets It according to his own private
views. At such times the style becomes
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VERDICT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ON IF1E PLA>

held In varying degrees by several mutually
dependent classes. Tho King was only tie
greatest among his peers. and below the
peers, with jealously guarded prlvr,~s~.
came the landed gentry. and below them.
with strictly reserved rights and duties
came the smaller land owners, and then
still protected from cncroachmcnt from
above, came the traders, artisans and Labor.
ers. This conception is brilliantly ,llus
trated in Henry "" in the passage where
"the state Of man in divers functions" is
compared with that of the honey bees
creatures that by rule in nature teach
the act OF order TO a peopled kingdom"
Being an Englishman, however, with An
Englishman's characteristic sense for fact
an Englishman's characteristic eve for nor
sonality rather than theory, Shakespcarc *
concerned within this frame or setting nf
feudalism not so much with gcnctic prub.
lens. the problems OF classes. as with flo
problems Of individual souls. As far as
kingship went he recognized the fact th,,t
no man was ft for 1t. He felt that the ,as,
Of ruling a people was too crushing for any
one pair Of shoulders. What c.urh, biy
eye in English history was not what fSes
The attention OF modern historian n
Froude. a Green, a Gardiner. not the s,o,,
Of the English people but rather tho pomns
and splendors Of court life. the Psychology
OF kingship and the reaction Of power unon
human nature.
II any one entertains the illusion ,hs,
political liberty is something new or
purely American acquisition lc, him turn
to these four plays. He will see in then
how much ahead OF the other peoples a.
Europe our sturdy ancestors were even IN
the sixteenth century; how far from de.
politically England was ruled; how icalouslv
Englishmen protected their rights from IN.
encroachments of absolutism and how ont,
spoken they were then "a now IL wo can
imagine Shakespeare living about 1898 4,
any other country ne would not have been
able to put such brave words into .hs
mouths OF common people. such considera,.
words into the mouths OF dukes and barons
such humble questioning in the hearts a.
kings. The sense OF responsibility was al
ready awake in the ruling classes OF Fn..
land. and her people have never known sub.
lection.
As for the pomps ana splendors fssc.
mating a. Ii his presentation Of them. they
are not the subject Of this paper. We are
concerned hero with the steady and RECENT.
less gaze which Shakespeare plunged into
the hearts Of kings and other human m.
fngs who have thrust themselves into
power or had responsibility thrust rnor
them. He dallies with the subject o. d,ysn.
right. can hardly get away from II, h,, IN
the end seems TO lay II aside in despair ana
gets down TO the solid bases Of human ma.
ture
Here ne was at home In tNe Ions'v
night watches by the bedside OF a Hor--.
~, IN the prison of a Richard IT, on NO
haunted couch of a Richard III. hv ~
campfire with Henry ". II is a noo- ha-s
uncrovned figure Of man .ve SOC wros
ling with the problems that afHc All ma,
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far from It, For example. in "Othelo' II
certainly does not prevail. But it is upon
faithfuness as the chief of human Vir' ues
tha, Shakespeare puts the stamp OF MS
approval--upon f,,!thfulness and one other
quality which makes faithfulness e1ec-
tive, namely n sense for reality.
II is in measure unfortunate ana
limits their usefulness as examples that
so many of his characters are royal or
otherwise high placed personages Every
kind Of community lays special emphasis
upon the variety Of faithfulness most in
dispensable to it. \ military community
values courage and obedience. monastc
community values chastity. a frontier
people values enterprise and helpfulness to
ones nelghbors. \ business community
values honesty, thrift and energy. with
Shakespearc's feudal lords, kings COM
manders and statesmen it Is personal
.fidelity and class consciousness that are the
first requirements in a man of good Will.
Yet we can make allowances and de-
auc..on. and transfer tn our own sphere
much that was originally applied to them
The unwelcomc fact remains, however
that he was often unfair to his characters
of low degree, considered as such, and that
aristocratic figures prcdomnate out OF all
proportion in his world.
II Is furthermore apparent that in
Shakespearcs ideal world human beings
have not full control of their fatcs. Char
acter Is not always destiny i'm his pages, {,
nor is il in life either. Ills plays arc not
Sunday school books, nor are they fairy
tales But in general persons in his
works who subordinate lower to higher
purposes and desires are approved, whether
they succeed or fail, and those are dis
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Three Preen1inences Of
Shakespeare
By HENRY A. BEERS.
Professor Of English Literature, Y.l.
University.

A THOUGHT that comes ratu,a,v ..
-. one when reminded that il &c 4.
three hundred years since Shah
sPeare uied is the enormous growth NJ,
lame. In 1916 he was simply tile exrele.
drainatick poet. Master VIM. Shaispers
an 1910 ne is the foremost fiigl!sh meet A.
me supreme dramat!st Of all time II -
pays are the one lasting contribution e.
the EIiIapethan stage to the lit4ra-,lr, %
the world and Coleridge protested that +
"r''nss OF MS contemporaries Won,d ID.
uihe De reduced to notes on ShakoSp.are
In three particulars his position - u,-
"ssa''doie' lie is our greatest pra,' .vt.
pla!"r'sht' our greatest poet tho crel'o.
single contributor e., the phrases of Tqs.,s
speech. His plays have O.ver ceased 10 b.
played. Al least twenty OF them ST.
peIohS 10 the acted drama. to Ia reper'or.
OF the theatres. Severa! of tho utEc,~ f...
popular, are revived at Intervals tr r.
th!rty-seven pieces are or were unill .t,,..
given annually in Germany.
fut even If his plays should case - %
shown-a thing 10y no means .mpu-s N
since theatrical conditions tl.r-,. ~.
VIII never cease To he read Already 20 fU.
a hundred readers for on -pr.,i'.r
Shakespeare literature . vast i.u.'e
teNtual criticism. comment. auit.-
psychological and historical, illustration .
every phase and detai, grow apa
what monument to one man. .....rs lr.
the two great variorum editions %, Mai
ana or F'urniss. II hundred years apart g'
the latter still incomplete. Nrd NOT o..
out more is daily being written a'"'
Shakespeare
IN Bartletts "Dictionary of Qu''a', p.
there are more than l20 pages ut '.'t't..
from Shakespeare. including hundreds
expressions now in constant use and nm
lar as household words not merely s.
fences universally current such ae "E-nv'.
IL the soul Of Wit" and "Orc t.Gnh
nature makes the whole world L.n"
detached phrases like "a woman r,lSN"
"a bright particular star" "thr pr.V"..
path of dalllance." funeral baked m"4'-
The growth of this uncNamplcd fame p p
been steady and gradual, but Il has hy
means been exclusively the worh 80 ~..e'
years TWO centuries ago Pope ,oHH.r
IN well known passage THAI q 81. w.
lures III" least criticism on S.Hi,-'.
our fathers (scventecnth century "
will
rise NJ .0 % '.a.
And swear all shame is lost in q .rs
In England all through t.r ,.
century Shakespeare WAS ,uj....
and more into his own. apprr' ....
becoming wider, deeper ami '..
gent The latter part of t...
made him known to German.
analysis of Hamlct's cNaI4r',. . "
helm Meister" was perhaps th, .".. '.'
Of modern intcrprctativc Shnhr-u.r. '''
cism. And now GcurG I;.'..
Danish critic, pronourrCs Han. ' M
famous Dane In history. q huu#n 'H
more famous than Tyc.o Erah". y '."' .
sen or Hans Christian .\ndrg,'n
In the ninctcenth century \..'"- '''-
and his fellow roman,cistS ns>''i'.. "'a"
spearc to reluctant France. o'r"r 'aF
rcluctated against the re s'h.-
his fame--Rymcr. \ultI.rr, M,t ..
tho latest and wi't.cyr of '.# '"'-..
q. u. Shaw, who "gls h.u .E.
Swan" and maintains tud. ''
liSious or pol!t!Ca. pgAN.'.'-
his picture Of life is uu@uyiI! '.
The Yale expositor., 1916-06-29

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Norfolk a Wsstern Railway.
JAMES RUSSELL. CssJ MsassU.
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s.asst Cs.tr.l Lines.
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A USEFUL PAIN
Yale People Should Heed It's
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A Question For the Public to Decide

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NOTICE.

That the sale under the mortgage foreclosure
OF Lots Twelve 02) and Fourteen (l4) In block
Seventy-hve (75) OF the Cemetery Plat OF the
Fort Gratiot Military Reservation Plat of a
part OF the City of Port Huron. 81. Clair county.
A. ID. 1916; aud that the sale will be held ON the
last mentioned date at nine o'clock In the fore
noon at the main east door Of the Court House
place where the Circuit Court for the County of
50. Clair i hOldenl and that said sale Is to be
held by virtue OF the power Of sale contained In
a mortgage given by Michael Madden aud Cath
crime Madden, his wife to The Commercial Bank
and recorded Ia Llber l27 OF Mortgages. page BAG
THE COMMERCIAL BANK, MORTGAGE
@. l.. BENEDICT, Attorney for Mortgagee,
White Block, Port Huron, Michigan. 1872
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DRoBATRO ORDER

DROBATR ORDER
State of Michigan The Probate Court for
the County of st, Clair
At a session OF said court, held at the Probate
ONCE IN the City Of Port Huron. I'm said County,
On the 25th day Of May, A. ID. 1916.
Present. Hon. Hugh n. Hart, Judge of Probate
In the Matter Of the Estate of Bruce Lothian
Deceased.
Elizabeth Lothian having filed with this Court
her final administration account as administra-
trixof said estate together with a petition pray
Ing that the said account be allowed the admin
istratrix discharged, the estate closed. the
heirs determined and the residue of said estate
assigned TO the persons entitled thereto.
IL Is Ordered that Monday, the 26th day OF
June. next, at $500 o'clock In the forenoon. at
said Probate ONCE, be appointed for hearing
thereof;
And II Is Further Ordered, that copy Of this
order be published three successive weeks prev
ious to said day OF hearing In the Yale ExpOstor
newspaper printed and circulating in said
I.HSItn rSe o. co ps; o'a'r' HUGH II HART
GEO. l.. BROWN, Judge OF Probate
Probate Register "a
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Read all the store news in the Elk.
positor.
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Federal Inquiry or
Railroad Strike?

Faced by demands from the conductors femen and brkemn
1000 the railroads that this problem
reference impartial Federal tribunal
With these employees whose efficient acknowledged the railroads
differences could
a public
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Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration

The formal proposal of the railroads the employees for the settlement
the a follows:
We hat % h differences dOpnhn vetuIyhe
THAT om
by Interstate Commerce Commission
o. h rved hs dlwN sh
tn IN deputies interests affected md npnSih hdonae
Of
n % ihh vHont tn Feeu lIaw"(T he Newand
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Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote

VII Leaders of the train brotherhod the joint conference held New
or Federal review and the employees voting the whhe
o
The by
public body which this
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No other body with such intimate knowledge
OF railroad conditions has such q unquestioned posi-
ton in the public confidence
The rates the railroads may charge the public for
transportation are now largely fixed by this Govern
ment board.
Out Of every dollar received by the railroad, from
the public nearly one-half 10 paid directly to the en-
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Poyes wages and the money to pay increased wages
can come from other than the rates paid
by the public.
The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its con-
troll over rates, 10 in a position to make q complete
invest alton and render such decision AZ would pro-
tec the interests Of the railroad employee the
Of the railroads. and the public.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-20
NO LONGER MILITARY
NECESSITY FOR TROOPS
General Funston Reported to Have
Recommended Withdrawal OF
Pershing's Army.
NO WORK TO BE DONE
Army Onicials Will Be Glad to Get
Men Back to Civilization and Out
of Unhealthy Mexican Climate.
May Be Out In Month.

Washington. Aug. 19--President
Wilson has taken the first steps to-
wards withdrawing General Pershing's
expeditionary force from Mexico.
High army officials predicted today
that all American troops would be
out of Mexico by September Is.
The State Department asked the
War Department yesterday to get a
report from General Funston as to
whether Pershing's troops could be
safely withdrawn from Mexico at the
present time.
General Funston replied last night
tary necessity to hold the troops in
Mexico.
Secretary Baker conferred with the
President today. He refused either to
deny or confirm the report that the
troops were to be withdrawn. Leav-
ing the White House, he said:
mo orders for the withdrawal Of
the troops have been issued, and mono
are in contemplation. Carranza has
insisted that the first question con-
sidered by the board is the with
drawal of United States. Mr.. Wilson
insists on broadening the scope Of
the main question. the settlement Of
which caused the suggestion of the
commission. leaves nothing but the
latter questions to be considered. It
Ia pointed out that with all OF the
American troops off Mexican soil, no
differences would exist between the
two governments and there would be
nothing for the commission to arbi-
trate. One reason for Withdrawing
the troops now is stated TO be the ap-
proach OF the rainy season. which
will make 1t difficult to keep the
troops in good health It is pointed
out that most OF the sickness in the
army is in General Pershings division.
where the regulars show a much
larger percentage OF incapacitated
men than the unhardened guardsmen
who are on American soil. General
Funston has indicated that unless
there Is real work to be done in
Mexico there is no reason for further
exposing the troops 10 the effects OF
the Mexican climate.