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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 6 September 1909, Page 4

.Falstafi is one of tho greatest, if not tho greatest, of tho creations of Shakespeare ((observes W. L. Courtney in the London "Telegraph").- ': [But it is-not every; professor of •poetry' who could recognise him an. such. His defects and his vices'cry aloud to ; Hea" ven; ho iB a,liar, and a braggart,' and : a drunkard, and, perhaps, a coward, though' I • ami not sure that his avdwed lack of courage is not part of humour. But we: take- him to our hearts, nevertheless, and when he receives that dreadfully stern reprootrr. ; ■ . I know theo not, old man; fall to thy .: prayers, ■■'. -' -. ■■"'.' Hojv ill white hairs become a fool and . '.''.. 'iester.S- '; . : ,'', ■ '. .'■ .- .■ ■ wo cannot repress n keen feeling of aston-. ished-.vexntion. And ~if Falstaff really died of a broken heart we aro not • surprised ; wo only feel the nioro rcsentful-ngainat the king who could so publicly degrade him. , Tlioro aro some valuable .lessons for. us. to learn from'-British mot-hods of co-operation, and it would not be lost time if our business managers and heads of departments wwit to England for a few weeks to.study those method-s ,' They would como back with somo valuable hints 'for us.—"l'uuple,"; Brussels. ' If ever.: one who. professes to care, about tho poor would make himself the friend of ouo poor, person thero would soon bo.iio-in-solubte pralilcm of "the masses," and Loudon would .bo within' measurable distance of becoming a city of - happy •■ bonics.—Cauou ißafiiett; . ■ '■"■'■ ''-•■■.■'■