Show A MEMORIAL TO SHAKESPEARE The Londoners propose to erect a grand memorial to the memory of Shakespeare on Portland place and aud want to make it a world tribute tribute that that is to have all the peoples of all the nations contribute to lit it The Tite New York Times approves of the project but ut all the says sas monuments in iu London have a r t to ry look and pleads for some really artistic design e ign by by- bythe the greatest sculptors Our idea is that the poets should supply the design de- de 1 sign and then have the sculptors turn the design into stone for fOl it must be remembered that Shakespeare is not dead No tall taB cold sl shaft aft rather make it a triumphal arch and embellish it above and below belo with figures as nearly life like life as can be wrought in alabaster Have all the thc Muses and Graces there at ut I. I the le base baHe each with a garland to crown him while above aboc make maIm room for Apollo and Pan and Hermes i. i 4 1 and und a winged statue statue of Victory for Victory for what triumphs compare with his V J 1 Indeed near nearly all the go gods s and goddesses might h place for fOl did he not give them mOl more e divine diviner r f expression than thc they r were ever eyer given giyen in the ancient I J 1 I. I world V The memorial might represent a mighty tragedy the theme being the struggle of iL the go gods s sand and go goddesses e to recover Cl his dh divine nc oui that thaL had b been en stolen from froni heaven en h by l' evil spirits spirit and the closing scene be his form with every C earthly stain era erased ed resting in peace with Aphrodite standing near smiling and awful Minerva i watching with helmet hel lid met in iii her hand His brain held the universe in its grasp all Hll its heights and alIl depths were explored h by him hini and pictured pictured pic pie in fadeless tints His Ilis monument nt should be e either cither a a triumphal arch archor or ci a temple so wrought and und so adorned that it would be a shrine to the thc world forever He lIe was a n poor pOOL man who rho eer every lla day had to toil to feed his babies but hiLt he lie has brought I more fume fame to England since since he lie lived ho lw will bring more to her in in inthe inthe the future than all her kings and mId lords S for what mortal can compare with one ne altogether divine What can can be bc a fitting fitting- memorial to a genius like lilic his his' |