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generally useful as that which re
lates the progress of the human
mind and the development of the
human race. Victor Hugo says that
the human mind half divine as it is
is capable of creating from time to
time superhuman efforts, and these
efforts are more numerous than is
generally or commonly supposed, for
aside from the works of the sculptor,
the painter and the poet, they em
brace the entire field of art. Much
has been written about this marvel
ous man Shakespeare, such ac
credited historical and dramatic
critics as Rowe, Malone, Halliwell,
Philips Thebold, DeQuincey, Richard
Grant White, George Brandts, Vic
tor Hugo and others have written
elaborately of his genius, but after
all we know but little of his inward
and outward history, beyond the fact
that he was an ordinary man of
humble origin, and that the average
mind not only, but the cultivated,
the cultured, and the matured mind
are amazed that one of such apparent
obscurity should so get the start of
the majestic world as to bear the in
tellectual palm alone, and be justly
styled not only the grandsire of the
English-speaking stage, but of being
the intellectual spendthrift of this
world. He was not so fortunate as
to be born surrounded by all the
pride, pomp, circumstance and glory
of aristocracy; there was no royal
blood in his veins, and 'tis best for
humanity that such was the case.
The men of . thought, the men of
genius, the men who have given to
the world the wit, the wisdom, the
philosophy, the story, the song and
the art that have enriched the hap
piness of .mankind were not born in
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castles or palaces, although somo
born within such confines have done
the world somo temporary good from
time to time; but the straw-thatched
cottages of Europe and the log cabins
of America have given to mankind
the intellectual wealth that made an
indelible impress upon the footprints
and sands of time. Europo fur
nished us with such examples as
Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Burns,
Richard Cobden and Leo Tolstoy.
America enriched us with such char
acters as Ben Franklin, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln,
Henry Ward Beecher, General Grant,
Horace Greeley, William McKinley,
Henry George and William J. Bryan,
whose worldly actions and methods
of pure thought have materially con
tributed to the civilization of our
age.
William Shakespeare was the
author of thirty-eight dramas, to
gether with several poems embrac
ing every variety of human thought
and action. He knew the heart and
brain of man and of woman; the
thoughts, theories, hopes, loves,
hatreds, virtues and vices of the
human race. We read one of his
plays, and our imagination leads us
to believe that it must have taken
a superhuman effort to have con
structed the drama. Wo pass on to
the next one and it opens up upon
us like a morning rose newly washed
with dew. When one attempts to write
of Shakespeare is like attempting to
describe the high peaks and the hid
den treasures contained in the
Hymalayas, the Alps, the Andes, or
the Rocky mountains. To add any
thing thereto would be like gilting
refined gold, painting a lily, adding
another hue unto the rainbow, seek
ing the beauteous eye of heaven to
garnish, or sprinkling perfume on a
violet. JOHN JAY FRAINEY.
IS IT WORTH WHILE?
Is it worth while that we jostle a
brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road
of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at
each other
In blackness of heart? that we
war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife!
God pity us all as we jostle each
other;
God pardon us all for the triumph
we feel
When a fellow goes down; poor,
heart-broken brother,
Pierced to the heart words are
keener than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for
weal.
Were it not well, in this brief little
journey,
On over the isthmus down into the
tide,
We give him a fish instead of a
serpent,
Ere folding the hands to be and
abide,
Forever and aye, in dust at his
side?
Look at the roses saluting each
other;
Look at the herds all at peace on
the plain;
Man, and man only, makes war on
his brother,
And dotes in his heart on his peril
and pain,
Shamed by the brutes that go
down on the plain.
Is it worth while that we battle to
humble
Some poor fellow-traveler down
into the dust?
God pity us all! Time too soon will
us tumble
All men together, like leaves in
a gust;
All of us humbled down Into the
dust.
Joaquin Miller.
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