.;■ Mr. Clement, Shorter was '■■ the 'principal speaker at.the centenary celebration of Ed;ward Fitzgerald,-' at Ipswich'. .Ho. said it was 'true that"Fitzgerald was f an' Irishman,, that ho'bame from-the. cream'of that-country—a Fitzgerald of the Kildare.and Leinster family which' produced the heroic Lord; Edward. But Suffolk was his birthplace, aid to Suffolk he belonged in all essentials'. Ho-was Universally admitted to '.; be ono of the best letter-writers in the English language. His acquaintance with tho' best in literature—: anoient and -modern —was-profound, and ho wrote with singular felicity 'and charm of every aspect of bookland.' Fitzgerald might justify an apparently idle, aimless'lifo, concerning which there had been'so miich needless moralising, if only by' virtue j-bf the fact that ho gave the world hissplendid letters. : I'HOSPnOL EMULSION ■.is" bone'-making and flesh-forming. A highly nutritivo food and nerve 'tohln.': '.'. -9
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 13
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136Page 13 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 13
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