Recollections . pertinent to the objects I had in view, where-of the first is to give permanency to the his-tory of the Stratford Fountain, and whereofthe other is to let the story bear record to Explanatory. 189 the general recognition of the fine motivewhich inspired the gift. If I have retainedanything which may not seem germane tothese objects, and which should, perhaps,have been rejected, I have erred only througha zealous wish to present as much evidenceas possible of the sincerity and universalityof that international spirit of fraternity tothe existence of which the newspapers ofthe Ol
Recollections . pertinent to the objects I had in view, where-of the first is to give permanency to the his-tory of the Stratford Fountain, and whereofthe other is to let the story bear record to Explanatory. 189 the general recognition of the fine motivewhich inspired the gift. If I have retainedanything which may not seem germane tothese objects, and which should, perhaps,have been rejected, I have erred only througha zealous wish to present as much evidenceas possible of the sincerity and universalityof that international spirit of fraternity tothe existence of which the newspapers ofthe Old Country and of the ]!^ew testified sostrongly in their remarks upon Mr. ChildssShakespeare Memorial. To the Storv of the Fountain >I havedeemed it not inappropriate to add briefaccounts of certain other gifts which, inthe interest of the same broad spirit of in-ternational brotherhood, Mr. Childs, as arepresentative American, has presented, atdiflPerent times, to England and to the Eng-lish people. L. C. SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN,Stratford-upon-Avon. THE STRATF0RD-UP0N-4V0N FOUNTAIN. THE INCEPTION AND ERECTION OF THE MEMORIAL. In the autumn of 1878 the Very ReverendArthur P. Stanle}^ , Dean of Westmin-ster, visited the United States, and duringhis sojourn in PhiLidelphia was, as so manydistinguished foreigners previously were andhave since been, the guest of Mr. GeorgeW. Childs. In the course of an after-din-ner talk the venerable Dean, whose love ofthe literature of his country was not lesssincere than his knowledge of it was pro-found, spoke feelingly of the absence of anysuitable memorial of some of those who hadlaid so broad and deep the foundations ofEnglish poetry. Especially he spoke ofShakespeare, and of the strange neglect ofthe British-speaking people to erect an ap-propriate monument to him even in theplace of his birth. The Dean of Westmin- 191 192 The Strafford-upon-Avon Fuuntaln. eter was greatly impressed by what he hadseen and heard in America,
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