. The truth concerning Stratford-upon-Avon, and Shakspere. With other essays. d of trade—deserting his wife and life in I^ondon is full of secrets. At forty-seven,it all ceases. He writes no more. Who can co-ordinate or reconcile these things?Who can conceive the likeness of the man who stepsin this light-hearted, simple way on to the very high-est platform of literature, so lofty and unattainablea place he takes without striving, without arrogance,a throne among the thrones where Homer, Virgil andDante sit? And yet his mind is set, not on thesethings, but on acres, and messuages, t
. The truth concerning Stratford-upon-Avon, and Shakspere. With other essays. d of trade—deserting his wife and life in I^ondon is full of secrets. At forty-seven,it all ceases. He writes no more. Who can co-ordinate or reconcile these things?Who can conceive the likeness of the man who stepsin this light-hearted, simple way on to the very high-est platform of literature, so lofty and unattainablea place he takes without striving, without arrogance,a throne among the thrones where Homer, Virgil andDante sit? And yet his mind is set, not on thesethings, but on acres, and messuages, tithes and in-vestments.— T. B. Upton Letters. If there was a Shakespeare of earth, as I suspect, there was also one of heaven, and it is of him that we desire to know something.—Henry Hallam. I cannot marry his life to his works.—RalphWaldo Emerson. 6o PORTRAITS Perhaps no greater fraud was ever perpetrated thanone found in an American book published in 1896 andentitled Shakespeare the Boy. A portrait of Shake-speare in youth is presented in the frontispiece, thus:. This is not a portrait of Shakspere, but apparentlyof John Milton.* The deception is particularly hei-nous, because, as the author confesses, the book waswritten for the benefit of young people. No portraitof Shakspere, taken at the time of life as here repre-sented, is in existence, or ever was in existence. Itis therefore utterly false. *See Shaksper Not Shakespeare, page 28, by William H. Ed-wards, author of The Butterflies of North America, A Voyage upthe River Amazon, etc. PORTRAITS 61 Another characteristic forgery of this kind is foundin Mr. Sidney Lees Life of William Shakspere, pub-lished by the Macmillan Company of London in frontispiece of that book is a newly discoveredportrait of Shakspere, claimed by Shaksperean au-thorities, including Mr. Lee himself, to be the origi-nal from which the famous Droeshout engraving ofthe 1623 Folio was copied hundreds of years these circumstanc
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