Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-19

The bust IN the stratford church u said by Sir
William Dugdale, writing IN 1853, 70 have been made
ny como Gerard Johnson lio may have worked
from a death-rnask or with the aid Of the memory
Of The neighbors" Of the poet who died IN 1915 At
al events the material the ssuptor wrought In did
not provo traceahe under bis hand, % Mr. Morgan'g
examination shows
In cutting the stone, tho sculptor evidently broke
OF fragment Of the portion out OF which he 9aa 70
eeo e poss 9nd ~ Wa driven 70 ehSe a tb ns ass
- small and weak while the upper lip If abnormnly
long. This abnormal length II upper llp too, hgd
y by carving thereon, instead Of mustache rather
Ss DC S 70 e1 5s BIZ O. o sp sa ~
or since be supposed p have ever worm the re-
un.Engiish faee certainty not DE face Of scholar
Or OF poet certainly not the face Of "an Immense
Shakespeare 70 have boen"
The bust, II may be said in the scuptor's behalf,
IN not in the condition In which he left II In 1918
Like many old churches, Il has been repaired and
restored" The actor, John Ward, toured the Mid
land counties during tho year Of "darricks Jubilee
giving Shakespeare representations IN order 70 raise
funds for the repair md restoration Of the
rnent and bust we al know" observes Mr. Mo-
KAN, what crimes can be committed IN the 81
repairs and what limits sr limits, Of vandalism
be committed under the pretext of restoratlona.'"
Tho Drocshout engraving "a prefix 10 the first
folio edition Of the plays Of 1879. and Ben John.
son wrote dozen lines OF verse oxtolling H. But
= Is hardly ,he face q man a. a. o. Except sept
ihe stanford bust boast ~ anyhow, mouth,
tho face N wooden, idotic affair such ancient
tohncconist would not have suffered for san.post;
q silly vacuity resembling nothing more human than
snnlan. certainly not within planetary spece Of ones
IDEAL Of Shakespeare.
Tho third Is bust now standing IN the GarrIck
club in London and yariouby known ~ THE Devon
shire" Tho DAyonant," and The Garriek shakes
peare" rs history 10 interesting enough TO be given
at some length
IN 1881, sixty-nine years after the death OF sir
which hs named The Dukes Theaer) ceased 70 be
sa 81 soogs a9e Sne nt9 China
land ware known % collectors IN 1875 this spode
make room for enlargement Of the museum Of the
London College Of Surgeons In the course OF denol
ihsaier plainly visible 3 teracotta bust fell from
%s essae n Ss so and
bracket on The side Of a door frame q The old
The other side Of this door frame led TO one being
found; and, standing aecurely upon it, bust which
hey arsaed u can hardly 0b u @
sglned that Sir William D,Ayenant who claimed 70
anybody but shakespeare on bracket opposite
discovery can II be imagined that Sir William would
have tolerated AZ lnadequats or worthless likeness
BY tho Duke Of pevonshiro Tor 800 guneas aud pre-
rented g the darrlek club And. indeed Z genuine
We posseas The face f. that o. man who had passed
tho maturity middle serious rather
lnflexihe scanned and careworn perhaps too much 80
since Shakespeare himself died aged only g yeara,
II is perhaps tho face OF capitalist than OF a
poet. sci. contained stern, but not unkndly
man OF affairs
ronicctural authorities, therefore, are remanded
20 their own opinion or their own ludgment-first,
20 whether the bust represents Shakespeare: and
secondly, whether n is conjeetural likeness drawn
from D'Ayenants memory OF his putatlve father as-
sisted by the memory OF others who knew Shakes
pcare In lfe whether II Is actual survival from
shakespeare own dny. for which he himself II
Is ineomparahly finer and more satisfactory than
either the Stratf0rd bust the Droeshou engraving
neither Of which Il resembles In a single lineamen
detail or even family suggests
After all, probably the best portrait Is that drawn
In words by Herder:
have IN mind immense figure of 4 man sit
ting high q rocky aummlt at his feet, storm,
tempest and the raging Of the but his head "a IN
the beams 81 heaven, This "a Shakespeare. Only
with this additions that far below, ut the foot MA
rocky throne are murtauring crowds that expound.
~ al.