Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . f the chi- rurgeons grave-stone, set nearly 268 yearsago, under which the fictitious pall-bearernow finds rest. Mr. John Hawkins, ofNewberry, South Carolina (LiteraryWorld, February 7, 1885), has a soldiersdiary, picked up by a Confederate at thebattle of the Wilderness—a diary extend-ing between February 17 and December31, 1862; on a fly-leaf is written the spu-rious epitaph. Unless the epitaph wasadded later (the battle occurred in 1864),this would show that the imaginary pall-bearer began his career earlier than wassupposed
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . f the chi- rurgeons grave-stone, set nearly 268 yearsago, under which the fictitious pall-bearernow finds rest. Mr. John Hawkins, ofNewberry, South Carolina (LiteraryWorld, February 7, 1885), has a soldiersdiary, picked up by a Confederate at thebattle of the Wilderness—a diary extend-ing between February 17 and December31, 1862; on a fly-leaf is written the spu-rious epitaph. Unless the epitaph wasadded later (the battle occurred in 1864),this would show that the imaginary pall-bearer began his career earlier than wassupposed. It is probable that some corre-spondent, having copied the epitaph cor-rectly, added that Dr. Helder was a con-temporary of Shakespeare, and might haveattended his funeral. A printer may haveincorporated the comment in the epitaph,and some contemporary evolved the sim-ple statement into the startling one. Theoriginal correspondent may have describedthe stone as at Fredericksburg, for theregion w^as a camp, and normal weremerged in military boundaries. Perhaps. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE GRAVE-STONE. it will never be known who served upthe chirurgeon as a Shakespearean can forgive him, since he has been themeans of discovering to the New Worldits oldest English epitaph. DOMESTIC AND COURT CUSTOMS OF PERSIA. APERSIAN mounts his horse on therig-ht side; he writes from rig-ht toleft. These may seem unimportant, tri-fling characteristics, but tliey are cited asforcible illustrations of the radical andpermanent difference between the nationsof the East and the West. The differencein the external customs and institutionsis more apparent, perhaps, but is less im-portant and profound than the divergencesexisting in the thouglit or tlie intellectualcast of these two great divisions of thehuman race. The Persians resemble Europeans, orrather the Latin people, more than do oth-er Asiatics, and yet, from the great gulfexisting between Persian and Frenchman,one who has never be
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