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Show Mark Iwain has undertaken to push forward in tuts country the project pro-ject which has been undert-.ken by the citizens of Siratford-on-Avon for the erection of a Shakespeare me-moiial me-moiial theatre in that town. Mark is iolicitiDg American subscriptions to this testimonial. In a letter to the New York Times he recalls the incident inci-dent that Bar nu m actually bought the Shakespeare house at Stratford-on-Avon, and was about to get the deeds for the pioperty, intending to bring the buiidirg to America for exhibition. ex-hibition. Then the tiling got wind and there was a fine stir in England ! The sale was stopped. Public-spirited Englishmen headed a revival of reverence rev-erence lor the poet, and from that day to this overy relic of Shakespeare in Stratford has been sacred, and aealously cared for accordingly. |