Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . ers. Not only in Stratford-on-Avon has the poets birthday beencommemorated. At Aston Hall, Birmingham, in 1859, no lessthan 250 people sat down to a dinner furnished in the greatgallery, and presided over by Mr. William Schofield, , todo honour to Shakespeares memory; and the function is keptup, to some extent, to-day in what Edmund Burke called TheToyshop of Europe. n But the regular feast at Stratford-on-Avon has disappeared,and along with it much of the old-fashioned, honest enthusiasmwhich contributed to make the festivals of fifty year
Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . ers. Not only in Stratford-on-Avon has the poets birthday beencommemorated. At Aston Hall, Birmingham, in 1859, no lessthan 250 people sat down to a dinner furnished in the greatgallery, and presided over by Mr. William Schofield, , todo honour to Shakespeares memory; and the function is keptup, to some extent, to-day in what Edmund Burke called TheToyshop of Europe. n But the regular feast at Stratford-on-Avon has disappeared,and along with it much of the old-fashioned, honest enthusiasmwhich contributed to make the festivals of fifty years, and evenof twenty years, ago so successful and enjoyable. The peoples love for Shakespeare cannot have grown less Shakespeare Worship in Warwickshire 67 though It manifests itself in a different and, it may be, in amore quiescent method to that adopted by our forefathers. Itis, however, a moot question whether a revival of the erstwhiledinner at Stratford-on-Avon to the memory of the immortalbard, would not bring benefit in a variety of 11 (mg Banbfabg at MtU Compfon: A RURAL SKETCH. riD^ XanMabi^ at Xtttlc Compton A RURAL SKETCH. A\OT your bold, barefaced, vulg-ar, ill-bred, syren-harpy sortVi of creature, with which modern literature and moderncivilisation have made the world familiar. Not that somethingless or more than a woman, who stands in the hall like a cast-iron door porter, and fixes a cold stare upon the lodger when-ever that luckless wight comes in or goes out. Not that human Gorgon who has a capacity for figures, andputs up the price of beef steak, mutton chops, and other edibles,until it almost takes a team of horses to draw the purse fromthe lodgers pocket on settling day! Not that desultory house-keeper who puts ill-aired sheets on the bed, and leaves themirror and chairs undusted. No; my landlady, whom I am about to limn with a feeblepen, is not of the general kind. Her dear old face—(yes, I amcompelled to use the word old, albeit it has been writte
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