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SO NEWS FROM
OVERDUE SHIP
CHAS, E. MOODY
The Gaelic Arrives
From Honolulu.
— *
ANOTHER TRANSPORT IN PORT
*
WESTMINSTER WELL CABBY
HORSES TO MANILA.

Six Troopships Will Sail for the !
Philippines Next — Tartar
and Manauense the First
to Sail Westward.
The Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company's Gaelic arrived from the Ori
ent yesterday. She was looked for Friday
night last, but was a day late leaving Yo
kohama and met strong head winds and
a heavy sea all the way from Honolulu,
She brought up 59 cabin passengers, IS
second cabin and 334 Chinese passengers.
Her cargo is a very valuable one, among
it being $339,000 in specie.
Colonel J. W. Pope, U. S. A., who went
to Manila on the transport Newport, was
a passenger on the Gaelic. ills wife had
been waiting at the Occidental for him,
and yesterday went on a tug to the quar
antine station to meet him.
The steamers Gaelic and Mariposa met
on the 10th inst. The Mariposa left here
on the sth Inst, for New Zealand and Au
stralia, and was about thirty hours'
steaming from Honolulu when the Gaelic
Epoke her.
The overdue ship Charles E. Moody
had not arrived at Honolulu when the
Gaelic sailed. The Moody is now out 181
days from Norfolk, Va., for Honolulu
with a cargo of coal, and 45 per cent is
being paid to reinsure hull and cargo.
Captain Anderson of Lewis, Anderson &
Co., one of the owners, is confident that
the ship is afloat. He thinks she la going
via the Cape of Good Hope, and will ar
rive ln Honolulu in due course. No anx
iety was felt in Hawaii about the ship
when the Gaelic sailed.
The transport Centennial arrived at
Honolulu on -the Bth inst. and the Sheri
dan on the Tth inst., while the Aztec sailed
for Manila on the 3d. Sherman on the
4th, hospital ship Relief for Guam on the
Bth. Grant for Manila on the Oth and Ta
coma on the Tth. The officers on the Gae
lic say that Honolulu has been having a
busy time of it with the transports.
The barkentine Omega. Captain Har
rington, cleared at Honolulu for San
Irancisco in ballast on October T
„£! 10 the v essel was added to the trans
port fleet yesterday. The British steamer
yvestminster arrived from Newcastle.
Australia, yesterday, and as soon as her
cargo of coal is discharged she will be
made ready to sail for Manila. She was
surveyed b 7.u Captains Bafneson and
Batchelder of the transport service yester
day and found to be in first-class condi
t on. The Westminster, has accommoda
tions for 000 horses and nearly that num
ber of animals will be sent away on her
The Leelanaw will be ready for service
again about the end of the week. She
will carry 254 horses. The Conemaugh
will carry over 300 horses, and she also
will he ready for the trip about the end
of the week. In all over a thousand head
of stock will be on its wav to Manila in-
Eide of ten days.
Of the fleet of troopships now in port six
of them will ha ready for sea about the
same time. Work is being rushed on the
Tartar, Manauense, Olvmpla. City of Pe
king. Pennsylvania ana Newport, and all
of them will probably be ready for sea
next Saturday, but it will be the 23d Inst,
before they sail. The Tartar and Manau
ense will be the first to depart. They
will carry the regiment that has been :
quarantined on Angel Island. The City
of ting and Pennsylvania will each car- ■
ry a regiment, while a third will go on
Mie Olympia and Newport. In all about
iTOOO men -.-.ill sail during Monday and !
Tuesday of next week.
These vessels will be followed in rapid !
succession by the Ben Mohr, Hancock, i
Victoria. Scindla and probably the Justin.
The two latter vessels are at Mare Isl
and, and will doubtless be got ready for
the voyage at that station.'
Besides these vessels quite a fleet is now
on Its way here from Manila, which will
be sent back as quickly as possible. The
Senator, with the Fifty-first. lowa Regi
ment aboard, should be here on the 24th
inst. She made a good run to Yokohama,
and left there for San Francisco on Octo
ber 7. The Wyefield ls now ten days out
from Hongkong and the City of Sydney
nineteen days from Manila." The Ohio
and Indiana are carrying the Tennessee
boys. The Ohio is 14 days out from
Hongkong and the Indiana eight days
from Manila, while the City of Puebla is
ten days, the Garonne nine days and the
St. Paul six days out from Manila. All
of these vessels should reach here be
tween next week and the first week in
November, and with anything like luck
the last of them should be .back in Manila
by the middle of December.
The State officials of lowa and the dele
gation that has come out here to welcome
home the lowa regiment were on the
front yesterday. They heard that divine
services were held aboard the battleship
lowa every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock,
fo they sent a request out to the captain
asking permission to attend. Their re
quest was readily granted and two launch
es were sent ashore to bring them out.
After the services the visitors were shown
over the ship, and came back ashore de
lighted with the warship and her officers.
Beersman's Body Found.
The body of "William H. Beersman, who
mysteriously disappeared from his broth
er's room, Saturday morning.October 7.was
iound yesterday morning floating in the bay
off Point Black by B. Hermann of 2910
larkin street and J. Lydon, who resides
on Larkin street at the waterfront. Cor
oner's Deputies J. D. Sullivan and J. J.
Flannaeran went to the place and con
veyed the body to the Morgue, W. H.
Beersman Identified the body as that of
his missing brother.
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Mich.
SIMPLE TRIBUTE TO THE
MEMORY OF WILL SNOW
SERVICES In memory of Will A Snow, late marine reporter on the Chron
icle, who lost his life on the night of Thursday, October 10. by falling
into the bay from a launch, were held yesterday afternoon at the rooms
of the Press Club on Ellis street More than a hundred friends and fel
low-workers of the dead Journalist gathered to testify their sorrow at
his untimely taking off. There was nothing elaborate about the exercises.
They were sinjple testimonial of friends to the worth of the dead man.
James P. Booth, president of the club, took charge of the proceedings and
introduced those who lent their aid to tho occasion. A song, "Still, Still With
Thee," by the Press Club quartet, was first, and then Ernest S. Simpson, city
editor of the Chronicle, spoke briefly and feelingly of the deceased.
"It is not my place to attempt any eulogy," he said, "but to testify to the
appreciation in which Snow was held and how he was esteemed by those for
whom and with whom he worked; how we knew of the courage and of the
faithful, sympathetic, unassuming nature of the man, and to say that It has
been a revelation to us that so many others knew him as we knew him. From
all walks of life comes testimony to the integrity and worth of the man and
his fine honor— from all along the water front, on which he worked, from the
military camps, from the soldiers, from all with whom he came in contact. We
did not Imagine that so many had found out the man as we knew him. It
was a revelation to us. selfish as we were in the belief that only we appreciated
him. We remember too well the shock and horror of that night of his death;
the quivering lips, the whitened faces, the shaking voices of those who came
to tell what had happened out there In the dark and storm. We hope and pray
that the sea may give back Its dead, that we may send it to the mother who
weeps and waits ln far away Kansas.
"We know not what there may be in the valley beyond the shadows, but
we believe and we know that among the souls of the men who have died for
duty's sake, clear and fair and white as any in that company shines the soul
of brave Will Snow. God rest him."
Homer Henley sang "Calvary," and after him came Merton C. Allen of
the Chronicle, who spoke of the dead man as he had been among his fellows;
of his genial manners and his sterling worth. He told of the bright future
that lay before the man so suddenly taken off. and he referred to the life of
the deceased as one worthy to be an example to those who sorrowed for him.
He had but gone, said Mr. Allen, to that better land, the portal of which men
call death.
Andrew Y. Wood followed with a solo. "Sion," and A. J. Waterhouse read
a poem written in tribute to tho worth of the deceased. "Come Unto Me" was
rendered by the quartet, and Dwight L. Potter of Oakland, who had been at
college with Snow ln Kansas, spoke for the relatives of the dead man. In
their name he thanked the friends who had gathered and who had shown such
kindly and ready sympathy, and then he repeated a prayer for the departed
soul, while those In the entertainment hall of the Press Club, a place unused
to such invocations, bowed their heads and followed him reverently.
General Funston and Vernon Kellogg of Stanford University were among
those who attended the memorial. Both were friends and fellow-collegians
with Snow.
The father of the dead Journalist will arrive at San Francisco to-day.
HAS LOCATED
RICH CLAIMS
AT CAPE NOME
Lieutenant Bennett Is
Home Again.
Lieutenant G. W. Bennett, a well
known former police officer of this city,
returned to liis home Saturday on the
ship Carrie and Annie after an absence
of two years in the gold fields of Alaska,
Lieutenant Bennett, who was one of
the most popular members of the force
and who served in its ranks for more
than twenty years, left for the Klondike
two years ago hoping to restore his
broken health by the long sea voyage.
He returns much better physically, al
though his left arm Is still partially par
alyzed from his former sickness. He has
been far more fortunate, however, than
many of those who have sought wealth
in the north.
Bennett yesterday recounted some of
his adventures to friends who stopped
him at every step he took from his home
at 814 lowa street. Every one in the Po
trero knows Lieutenant Bennett and they
were all anxious to say a cordial word of
greeting. He left for Alaska on the
Mayor Bidwell. a steamer owned by the
Independent Mining Company, of which
he is a member. A storm carried the ves
sel beyond St. Michael and threw them
right into the rich Nome district. Land
ing at Golovin Bay they were the second
party to strike these rich fields. The
company has located in this district alter
a year's prospecting some sixty-five rich
claims.
Lieutenant Bennett tells some startling
tales of hazardous escapes from death.
On one occasion the little steamer be
longing to the party battled with the
waves for eighteen hours, trying to keep
off a rocky shore. Another time the lieu
tenant and two companions, while sled
ding provisions over a frozen river, were
blown nearly a mile by a fierce hurricane
to what peemed certain death. Another
disagreeable incident occurred in en
deavoring to secure water, which can
only be obtained by melting ice. The party
was horrified on one occasion to find that
they had swallowed frozen pieces from a
dead Eskimo,
Among these in the party were Adoiph
Peterson, Charles Jewel, August Schultz,
Charles Ryoell, Henry Gumm, Peter Ben
son, Fred Olson, John Sandel, Morris
Enright, e Mike McDonald and Charles
Nelson.
Lieutenant Bennett expects to return to
his claims in a few months.
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ANHEUSER-BTJSCH BREWING ASS'N.
Died From Heart Failure.
William Fahlbush, a musician, residing
at 220 I.obos street. Ocean View, was
found dead ln hod yesterday morning by
his son. The death was reported at the
Coroner's office, and Deputy P. J. MeCor
mick, on Investigating the case, ascer
tained that Fahlbush's death resulted
from heart failure. In consequence of
this, and at the request of the members
of the family, the body was not removed
to the Morgue.
FOUR TIMES MENTIONED
FOR GALLANT ACTIONS
AMONG the passengers who ar-B
on yostordayH
Mosely.H
late Eighteenth^
com-M
hostilities Spn:nH
Span-M
bothM
troubles he In making a:il
enviable for :;nwl
returns the a scrgeantM
four for gal-H
to to the andH
ho iiort'urmedH
in defense the honor his flag.H
Though al
ho hisH
first the storming Ma-I
late before he theH
stripes a hlsH
name tO Washington amongM
those commanding goneraiM
for galiant.-yM
in
His distinction on this no.l
casion entire rogime.ntM
in the the o:iel
to enter Intreiu mucins
which he fifty o fl
the balance bayon-H
eting a Spanish officer who disputed hispassageJH
Another of his actions was bringing a wounded comrade off the fleld^B
at Hollo under a heavy Are. The man was wounded a second time while I
Mosely had him on his back. '^|
Mosely was offered a commission In one of the new volunteer regimen
but as the need of patriotic self-sacrifice had departed, he preferred to re-M
turn to his home to the delights of American life and the comforts of peace I
Mr. Mosely, who is the only son of Mrs. Colonel Bean, has a host oi^T
friends among the young society folk of this city, who will be delighted O
to hear of his return. - * ♦
THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. OCTOBER < I6, 1899.
BAD Ml FROM
TEXAS GOES ON
THE WARPATH
Mendenhall Tries to
Kill Castro.
William Mendenhall. an ex-sergeant in
the Twenty-fourth Infantry, attempted
yesterday afternoon to murder John Cas
tro, a saloon-keeper at 311 Pacific street.
It was by the merest chance that he did
not succeed.
Mendenhall is half-Indian and half-ne
gro, and boasts that he is "the gamest
| black beast that ever walked." He had
been haunting Castro's saloon for some
I months, having become Infatuated with
I a woman who frequented it. About three
months ago he was arrested for disturb
: ing the peace, caused by his fancy for the
woman, and on more than one occasion
since then he has caused a disturbance
in the neighborhood.
Early yesterday morning Mendenhall
was in the saloon and got so noisy that
he was thrown out. The woman had sent
him a note asking him to call, and be
cause the saloon-keeper refused to allow
him to see her he got angry and threat
ened to demolish the place.
Yesterday afternoon Mendenhall got
filled up with Barbary Coast whisky
, and purchased a revolver. He went to
Castro's saloon, determined to wreak
j vengeance on the man who had come be
tween him and the woman. Castro was
! standing in front of the bar, and as Men
! denhall opened the saloon door they were
! close to each other. Mendenhall pulled
, the revolver out of his pocket, and with
; out saying a word fired a shot at '"astro
The bullet grazed the saloon man's ear. i
and so close was the revolver to him that !
his ear was powder marked. The bullet i
struck an oak frame surrounding a pic
ture of "William Jennings Bryan, the apos- .
, tle of free silver, and lodged In the wall.
| There were some friends of Castro in
the saloon at the time, and before Men
denhall could fire again they rushed upon
him, and after disarming him gave him
|an unmerciful beating. Sergeant Chris
tiansen and some officers were apprised
of the shootinc: and were on the scene in
j time to save Mendenhall's life. He was
taken to the Harbor Hospital.- where cuts
' under his eyes and on his nose and face
were dressed. He was taken to the City ,
Prison, where a charge of assault to com*- ;'
! mit murder was booked against him. '■■
■ Judge Mogan happened to be In the prison '
at the time, and Mendenhall made it plain
! to his Honor that he came from Cleve- j
land, Tex., and, was a bad man to fool
; with.
Garfield League Entertainment.
The Garfield League Is arranging an en
tertainment and dance in honor of the
organizations that assisted in the Garfield
memorial exercises at Golden Gate Park.
The affair will take place next Saturday
evening at 507 Sutter street. The com
mittee in charge consists of Richard Val
lentine, Joseph Meneses, A. de la Torre
Jr. and Dawson Meyer. The programme
will consist of a vocal selection, "The
Banner of the Bear" (Roeckel) by the
Alamo Quartet, composed of Mme. Ellen
Coursen-Roeckel, Mrs. H. Lewis, iVule
Elena ■ Roeckel, Miss May Mabil;
humorous remarks, Charles Alpers* sonjr'
(a) "II Bacio" (Ardlti), (b) "My Flap"
just published ( Roeckel). Ny Mrs. Bert
Godalr Adams: recitation, Major Charles
W. Kyle; songs, Knickerbocker Quartet:
humorous selections by Mr. Van Cleve
dance and Cakewalk by professional tal
ent, and dialect stories by members, fol
lowed by dancing.
FRANK B. MOSELY.
THE CALLS
HOME STUDY CIRCLE.
Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. William J. Rolfe, Dr. Ham
ilton W. Mabie. Dr. Albert S. Cook. Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Demraon. Dr. Vlda
D. Scudder and others.
1. HOW TO STUDY SHAKESPEARE
Let us suppose that one Is approaching
Shakespeare for the first time. If he feels
himself at a loss to know what to do be
yond reading each play through, it ls be
cause he does not know what to look for.
For that ls what study is. It is a looking
for something and an endeavor to ascer
tain when one has found it. In arithmetic
and algebra lt is a looking for the answer
to a problem, or rather for the processes
leading to the discovery of the answer.
In history it is a looking for the causes
which have made individuals or nations
great, and the reasons for their decline or
overthrow. In chemistry it is a looking
SHAKESPEARE, From the Stratford Portrait.
The pretentious painting known as the Stratford portrait and presented ln 1867 by
W. O. Hunt, town clerk of Stratford, to the Birthplace museum, where it ls
very prominently displayed, was probably painted from the bust in the Strat
ford church late in the eighteenth century.
for the elements of which a body is com
posed and the proportions In which those
elements enter into the constitution of the
body. In psychology it is a looking for
the traits which go to make up human
nature. In painting it is a looking for the
secrets of color, of beautiful line, of at
mosphere, of composition, of tone. As all
study is a search, the question of how to
study Shakespeare is best approached
through the question, What shall we look
for in Shakespeare?
I shall of course not attempt to enum
erate all the things which one may rea
onably hope to find in the dramas, which,
by common consent, stand at the summit
of English literature, if not of the
world's, but shall content myself with
mentioning a few of the more obvious, if
at the same time they represent funda
mental aspects of the poet's work and are
profitable subjects for prolonged consid
eration.
1. It is related by St. Augustine that,
! upon the recitation in the theater of the
famous line of Terence, "I am a man. and
I I consider naught that Is human beneath
my regard," the whole audience. broke out
into thunderous acclamation. Shakes
peare might have adopted the line as his
motto. Beyond any other writer he has
exemplified Pope's sentiment, "The proper
study of mankind is man." He was
a hero-worshiper when hero-worship
was possible; when he could not
approve, he yet loved; and when
he could not love, he scrutinized, he an
alyzed, he revealed. The Individual soul
lis to him infinitely attractive, nay. en
! grossing; he is appreciative of Its virtues
and aspirations, tolerant of Its foibles
and amused by its harmless or delightful
eccentricities: he sounds Its deepest pas
sions, comprehends the mainsprings of
its activity, and. while watching how it
is Impelled by desire or precipitated by
circumstance toward an Inescapable fu
ture, he is touched by its pathos and its
tragedy or exults in Its attainment and
Its joy. Partake Shakespeare's delight in
life, and in the play of life upon life, if
you would derive impulse and Instruction
from the vast spectacle of man, if you
would find a village rife with momentous
mystery, and make the circle of your ac
! quaintance a theater replete with the cv
! rious and the wonderful. Begin this study
lin any play of Shakespeare. Count up
its distinct characters: note their indi
vidual traits; see to what types they sev
erally belong and to what classes of so
ciety: observe how they behave in dif
ferent situations and how they react one
upon another; and discover how far they
resemble the men and women that you
know or that you have read about. When
you have done this with half a dozen
dramas try to form some conception of
the range of interests, the closeness of
observation and the quickness and versa
tility of sympathy of the man who could
imagine and create this world of human
beings. You will thus have begun to
study Shakespeare, and perhaps to find a
new meaning in the world about you.
2. Notwithstanding Shakespeare's ab
sorption in the individual soul, notwith
standing his sympathetic interpretation
of the beggar, the serving man, the thief,
the drunkard, or the monster lower than
man— if any monster can be lower than
degraded man— yet he Is never at a loss
to exhibit a scale of values for his per
sonages. They are not equal In spiritual
rank, and he never pretends they are. We
feel with Caliban, as more righteous be
ing than ourselves would feel with In
dians and other barbarians, when he says:
•''.'■ vii- When thou earnest first '£-,yl7i
Thou strokest m« and made much of me;
wouldst give me 7"7.77-7j-:
Water with berries in 't, and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less.
That burn by day and night, and then I loved
thee.
And showed thee all tho qualities o' the Isle*-
The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and
fertile —
Cursed be I that did sol All the charms
Of Sycorax. toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have.
Which first was mine own king, and here you
sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you __■ keep from me
The rest o' tne island.
Yet though we resent the apparent in
justice which he suffers, we never suppose
him to be the peer of Miranda or Phospero.
We may make merry with Falstaff and
find his wit, his roguery and resource in
finitely diverting, yet Shakespeare con
vinces us of his essential vileness and fu
tility, and even causes us in some measure
to despise ourselves for our laughing con
donation of his vices, when Prince Hal,
now king indeed, touches him as with
the spear of Ithuriel and causes him to
appear in his true aspect ("2 Hen. 1V.,"
V., v., 51-74.).
3. Shakespeare has the greatest respect
for the civic virtues, for those which hold
together the framework of society. It fol
lows that he brands with his abhorrence
all treachery, disloyalty and Ingratitude,
all ruthless and insolent tyranny, and all
deliberate failure to co-operate In the ad
vancement of the common weal. Almost
very one of the more serious plays and
even some of the comedies, will furnish
; instances in proof. In "King Lear" he
stigmatizes filial ingratitude; in "Mac
beth," regicide and oppression; In "The
Tempest," treason; and these are but
specimens. Now and again the whole
tempest of bis eloquence is poured out in
a flood on the unsocial vices, on lawless
ness, anarchy and riot.
4. While It is thus true that Shake
speare has for his characters a scale of
values and recognizes a pantheon of vir
tues, it must be said, on the other hand,
that there is an excellence for which he
has but scant and conventional appre
ciation. I refer to the virtue which has
primary reference to God, as those al
ready mentioned have to man or the state.
Though he can at times manifest tender
ness and reverence in his allusions to
sacred things (as c. g.. "1 Hen. 1V.," 1.,
1., 18-27; "Hamlet." I . i.. 158-134; "All's
Well," 11., i.. 139-144). yet for reverence,
for worship, for holiness of life, he in
general has but slight regard. The ami
able friar In "Romeo and Juliet" by no
means Inspires unqualified reverence; the
ambitious Gloucester, not yet become
King. Richard 111., is willingly supported
! in his young hypocrisy by two bishops,
and the saintly seeming Angelo in "Meas
use for Measure" has but stolen the livery
of the court of heaven to serve the devil
in. Shakespeare came between the earlier
ages of faith, with their exaltation of re
ligion, and the puritanism of the seven
; teenth century. He finds the Middle Ages
j picturesque and despises the puritans; he
| himself In a child of the Renaissance, and
his kingdom Is a kingdom of this world.
5. While Shakespeare's prime interest
is in humanity, he yet has an open eye
for the terror, the majesty and the beauty
of the physical universe, and for the
aspect of all things visible. Take but two
illustrations— the one of the sun ("Richard
II.," 111., 11., 41-2. when
From under the terrestlal ball
Ho fires the proud tops of the eastern pines;
the other of the winds ("2 Hen. IV. 11l
i., 22-4): .
Who take the ruffian billows by the tops.
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging
them
With deafening clamor In the slippery clouds;
I or. If you wish another, add the picture of
j a navy afloat ("Henry V.," 111., prol.
7-16). But in any case note how he per
! sonifies— he makes nature alive with
j man. j 7- :
6. Shakespeare has definite views con
[ cerning poetry. its nature and processes.
Thus he proclaims the office of poetry to
soften and refine ("Two Gentlemen of
| Verona." 111.. 11., 72 ff.): .-777
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets'
sinews 777 ';■'-• 77:7V- ■■T.v..: 7
Whose golden touch could soften steel and
stones.
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
Again, he tells us what Is the poet's
master faculty ("Midsummer Night's
Dream," V., 1., 12-17):
The poet's eye. In a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth
to heaven; ~v.-V.-v7
And, as Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
'a local habitation and a nam*-
He affirms a deep and hard truth ("As
You Like It," 111., iii., 19): "The truest
poetry is the most feigning." He per
ceives that art may surpass nature
("Venus and Adonis,". 289 ff.):
Look when a painter would surpass the life.
In limning out a well-proportioned steed,
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed;
So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
And in the perplexed question concerning
the relative superiority of art and nature
he gives an illuminative decision ("Win
ter's Tale," IV., iv., 89 ff.):
Made better by no means,
But nature makes that mean: so over that art
Which you say adds to nature is an art
That nature makes.
There is an art
Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
The art Itself Is nature.
Finally, when he speaks of "the elegancy,
facility and golden cadence of poesy," he
has at once named the trait by which the
unlettered most readily recognize it, and
the quantity of which the greatest mas
ters are the quickest to appreciate "the
charm, Shakespeare studied nature, but
he labored at an art; and the measure of
his success in touching the hearts of men
Is the perfection which his art attained.
So we may, if we will begin by looking
in Shakespeare for these six things. We
may see how he loves, and studies, and
reveals man in brutes— the human soul In
a human body— in a word which thwarts,
perplexes, amuses or inspires him, and
amid other human beings from whom he
is strikingly dissimilar, and with whom
he is essentialy akin. Then we may ob
serve how Shakespeare never persistently
and ultimately misleads us, but always
gives us ample materials for deciding
upon the true moral rank of each of his
important characters. We may perceive
how he is interested to uphold the moral
order of the world, as revealed In social
and political institutions, and how he
lashes those who are guilty of any at
tempt to subvert this moral order, while
he bestows honors with a lavish hand
upon those who are concerned in main
taining It. We shall then discover, on
closer inspection, that the dramatist has
but slight sympathy with other worldli
ness, with the spirit that, regarding man
as a stranger and pilgrim on the earth,
deliberately sets its affection on things
above. Next, we may follow his pencil
as, with vigorous or tender touches, it
paints for us the appearance and effects
of objects in the world of sense, rarely
giving us an object alone, but associating
them in groups, or uniting them by recip
rocal action and influence, as he does
with his human beings. hen we have
begun all this, we may at length study
Shakespeare's views concerning the won
derful art by which he was enabled to
perform these marvels, and investigate
the means by which they were actually
brought to pass.
_ Tale University.
[Copyrighted, 1899, by Seymour Eaton.]
Note — Shakespeare studies will be
published on Mondays and Thursdays.
The study of "Love's Labor Lost" will be
commenced on Thursday.
THE CALL'S
HOME STUDY
CIRCLE.
Great Artists.
This course will be published
on Tuesdays, beginning Tuesday,
October 17.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS
COURSE:
JOHN C. VAN DYKE, LED.,
Lecturer on art at Columbia, Harvard and
Princeton.
RUSSELL STURGIS,Ph.D.,F.A.I.A.
Art Critic of trje New YorK Times.
A. L. FROTHINGHAM JR., Ph.D.,
Professor of Art, Princeton University.
ARTHUR HOEBER,
Art Critic of the New YorK Commercial
Advertiser.
FRANK FOWLER,
New YorK City.
THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS WILL
BE TAKEN UP:
1. Titian.
2. Correggio.
3. Donatello.
4. Valasquez.
5. Dnrer.
6. Hans Holbein.
7. Van Dyke.
8. Frans Hats.
9. Gainsborough.
10. Constable.
11. Sir Thomas Lawrence.
12. Sir Edwin Landseer.
13. Meissonier.
14. Gilbert_Stuart.
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booklet mailed free to any address.
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Five or more races each day.
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Next Sunday night, Hoyt's "A MILK
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