The masque of the muses . speare in Tower GrovePark, with which she was greatly pleased, and whichshe regarded as more eloquent of power than anyShakespeare she had ever seen. She looked at thestatue and the embellishments of its pedestal fromall points of view, and became desirous of contribut-ing something to the Shakespeare surroundings. Shepromised to visit Stratford at her earliest conven-ience, obtain a slip of the Shakespeare mulberry andsend it over to be planted in her name. She stepped MEMORIALS. off the ground at the back of the statue and markedthe spot where she would Hke the tree
The masque of the muses . speare in Tower GrovePark, with which she was greatly pleased, and whichshe regarded as more eloquent of power than anyShakespeare she had ever seen. She looked at thestatue and the embellishments of its pedestal fromall points of view, and became desirous of contribut-ing something to the Shakespeare surroundings. Shepromised to visit Stratford at her earliest conven-ience, obtain a slip of the Shakespeare mulberry andsend it over to be planted in her name. She stepped MEMORIALS. off the ground at the back of the statue and markedthe spot where she would Hke the tree to grow. Shewas not permitted to fulfill her promise. In the death of Adelaide Neilson the Englishstage was robbed of one of its chiefest adornments,and the drama of one of its potent individual of her great audience feels hertaking off as a personal loss, a sad bereavementof the eye and heart, and many Americans who mayhereafter visit England will make pilgrimages of loveand memory to a grave at THE NEILSON MULBERRY.
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