THE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE.
We have spoken of various methods of getting rid of superfluous literature. (And what _ becomes of printed matter, such as this, which is mere comment upon literature?) asks 'The Office Window" in the Daily Chronicle. But when you . aro tired of guessing- at the best hundred books for your shelve?, you may be interested in Dr. Eliot's sins of omission. Dr. Eliot, who is president oi Harvard, and one of the big Americans, was asked to fill a five-foot shelf with books. He omitted Shakespeare and the Bible. And . his apology was that any one who put up "a five-foot shelf for books would have the Bible nnd Shakespeare already. They are curiously linked in somo minds — the Bible ana Shakespeare. In others they are curiously dissociated. For S^haKespeare was a mummer, whatever else you may say of him, and the theatre has inclined the enmity of solemn folk, from John Knox to Mr. Harry Lauder. This writer can apologise for two grandfathers, both of them verse-d in the Bible. But neither would allow a copy of Shakespeare in the house. The Bible, yes. But Shake--speare .... And yet those two old gentlemen talked Shakespeare constantly, j
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 63, 11 September 1909, Page 13
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