Show THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL i It is now proposed in England to make the Shakespeare memorial a theater to call can on all the world for subscriptions to reach to be expended expended expended ex ex- upon it In one sense that would be a most appropriate memorial for to manage a theater was Shakespeare's business and that he was a capable was shown by his being able to retire while yet ct young with a fortune ills Ilis perfect knowledge kno ol or what was needed in a pIa play and what must be avoided is amply shown in his works When on some high theme where it was simple human nature 1 i 1 to continue the lofty strain through twenty lines hues they arc el c everywhere where cut to 1 five ve or 01 six lie He wrote what he knew tin un audience would accept and and not a aline aline aline line more And though mighty rough audiences thc they had hall shrewd discriminating taste But if it isto is islo lo tu be e a n. theater who will design it to make snake it represent sent Shakespeare 1 That is the soul of Shakespeare of-Shakespeare that something which enabled him to sound all nIl the depths of the human heart and the heights and depths of nature and to give expression to his thoughts in words that no man mun has ever been able to emulate All the gods and goddesses will have to tobe tobe tobe be invoked heroes and kings and queens will have to be called up lip from the graves braves of the pa past t to do him hUll reverence reverence- but in what form can the stately procession procession procession pro pro- cession be he arranged 1 It is something which we fear none but hut a Shakespeare could prepare and alas there thelo was but one Shakespeare Over O the portal there m l must t bo hI a colossal statue of Victory for no soldier ever er won won the triumphs that he lie did in the heavy walls might bo exquisite statues of the men and women who were the offspring of his brain bruin which he created an and made immortal all art should be exhausted in the preparation and still the com com- complete completed work should be he simple and austere austere The rhe air should be absolutely classic and every ever carved stone I in tho the structure should be an emblem of some thought to which he lie gave birth Still we fear it will all an fall short that it it will be belike like the like the pictures the greatest artists have made of the Christ they Christ they have been painted from the im imaginations ini- ini of men and rind what mortal can give expression expression ex ex- expression to wh what t a god in the guise of a mortal must be 1 But the thc best that can be he done should be he done The structure sho should ld be made to lo last for a thousand years Perhaps by that time some artist ma may Y be able to give expression to what Shakespeare really was |