WORLD MEMORIAL TO SHAKESPEARE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 10

WORLD MEMORIAL TO SHAKESPEARE.

;; ALL . NATIONS ASKED TO,- ASSIST. :.; Will the.: tercentenary . of-';Shakespeiare's .dodth' -; ifi ; 1916. witness tho'- iii l26fcdohft|Nii the!. jioet'P Spftakih'g d't .tho Mansion X/brtl. JRdaiy said' : that, 5 lib. 'far'' as ■ support;; -frortiforeign co'u'utnfes! for sifch aii. objbfit vi'b' .concerii'edj he;: difficulty.- . From Fraiviii) hdVknew there 'would- be cortliai-support; v ;>' " In Berlin , wo. must look to the Emperor; and I i-doubt ha? will' :give : . the proppsifcl.,.. hi®: f i Sttpporti!r.. ; 'Directly>- : ho itoilces -.'tho initiativeiiit;is. safo. . . America :is' one jwi.tli Britain,' andi'thero is no doubt, that Continental countries will as cordially• . aid-: the object -in .-viewy- . As regards foreign' countries, what-we waiitis to be extreniely careful 1 thattl\4 proper people be asked to tako it! , up, arid .1,-suggest ..that . a committeo ; be formed; composed.of diplomatic, represfent'atives. of foreign • Powers to aid this: general committee in this; work.". The medtihg heartily approvod' of. Lord Reay's suggestion; ' !■ The movement for the proposed .memorial was 1 initiated 'aj; a Mansion House, meeting .in' July,. 1905, yrhon 'an advisory committee, including Sir 'E.' Poynter, .Sir' W. Richmond, ' Sir Aston Webb;', Mr. Belcher; Mr. Brw-k, 'Sir. ■ Sidney Colvin, and Mr. Hugh Chisholm, was appoints. That committee hiis- considered-'the question .of - sites, etc.," and at the meeting on March 5 tho following proposals were submitted-by tho tivo committee aiid agreed to:— ■ . _ 1. That the sitri in' Park Crescent look- . i ing down Portland. Place bo accepted '-.'OB the site of the memorial.' • . : 2. That the competition, for design : and execution be. open'to the English-;' ' .speakingi races all'over the wprld. , | 3. That the memorial be an architect.-' • tural monument including a statue. ; -4: .That an effort ba: made to, raise a, . • ;sum" of £200,000. • • 'f •: jit, is; understood, that ,a. 'million circiilars will/. be,\ distributed throughout the world Setting . forth the object and-Bbope'of the liiemorial. . ...'.V. • V...;:' :, ;.