Life — May 12, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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40 Minutes from B'way —_—_—~ THE MONTCLAIR “ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP" MONTCLAIR, N. J. te The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 896) Wallace. Hooray for the freshwater colles Let Yale and S. Weir Mitch- ell, LL.D. Harvard, look to their lau- res. We have it on the authority of George Ade that at least one fresh- water college graduate has several Harvard men working for him. Un- thinkable, but so. We cannot, it must be confessed, subscribe to all the facts or semblance of facts recorded by this Ph.D. of Freiburg—this grubber of genius and infinite pains, who tells us that Shake- speare wrote like a German and not in a Spencerian hand, as we had rather supposed—not even in the “fine Ital- ian hand,” which one might deduce from Richard Mansfield’s Machiavel- lian conception of Richard III, In “Timon” and in “ Pericles” Dr. Wal- lace “smells the victualler.”. Why? Merely because Shakespeare's collabor- ator in these plays was Wilkins, an inn- keeper. That, to our mind, is very much as if the modern Shakespeare, B. Shaw, collaborated with Simeon Ford (in some such trifle as “Man and Superman”), and we should instantly scent the cuisine. We think there is much better evidence to suppose that Mountjoy (perhaps Mme. Mountjoy), rather than Wilkins, had a hand in “Pericles” at least. Why? We are no scholar, yet it is deeply impressed upon our mind that Pericles was Prince of Tyre, and Mountjoy was, according to Dr. Wallace, a tyremaker. Inferences less substantial have been advanced by certain learned gentlemen dusty with much delving while we fleeted the golden hours in Arden. We are modest, but why should Locke Richardson have caused such excite- ment simply because of his suggestion that the youthful Falstaff was perhaps a choir-boy, because Falstaff, dying, The Has « chromatic wale of bird-tike notes, vibratlng Gives rch trill for town Goa sharp and peceiratiog for own by exacst, seve clog clans limit preys ‘sotometile needa; malodions, trl a pleamot tatppaitie emcrance aguas eecdeths = Cond dens an Eettaeals Wainte Summer FOR MEN Underwear FOR BOYS Porosknit Union Suits are cut from our special patterns—that is why they fit per- fectly. This Label on Every Garseat No gaps in the garment between each button, no double thickness at waist. Never pull or feel uncom- fortable anywhere. Porosknit suits— whether two-piece or union—are always c and always comfortable. Union Suits Any Style Garment For Mea For Boys $1.00 0c, Two-piece Suits— Any Style For Men For Boys 50c. 25c. per garment Bay from nearest dealer, Write for our handsomely illustrated booklet. CHALMERS KNITTING CO. 52 Washlastes Street lam, N. Y. “dabbled of green fields,” as if he had early known the Psalms? Finally, we are slow to accept Dr. Wallace’s idea that it was in the neigh- boring Italian quarter—on the stairs of some tenement—that Shakespeare first saw his Romeo and Juliet. To us it is a notion terrible as an army with bananas. Hereafter in our mind’s eye we shall always see that rapturously unhappy pair on a fire-escape, and hear the English sparrow, not the lark, sing- ing at heaven's gate. 897 Nevertheless, we are grateful. We could only wish that along with the new signature we could get a new photograph—something that would do justice to that “fine and solid head” admired of Taine, and yet displace the “silly smiling thing” execrated by Gainsborough. A true likeness of Willm Shaks—the man whose boots Thackeray would so gladly have blacked. That would be a boon. Yet we rest content with Dr. Wallace. To (Continued on page 899) comicbooks.com