A FRENCHMAN ON MACBETH

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 12

A FRENCHMAN ON MACBETH

Aki enthusiastic French student of .Bb'tt«e*p*aro thua comment* on ths tragedy of Macbeth : — "Ah! u your Mofcrieu' Shak-es-pior 1 110 is g.K&a-nd— mysterioUse— Booblime 1 \ou avß l'dads zo Mapabess ? — ze scone of zo Mossieu' Macabess vis ze Vitch— oh? Suporb^sooblimitee,! , Won he say to ze Vitch, 'Ar-r-r-oynt zo, Vitch II 11I 1 she ,go ttway ; but what' she say when she go pway? v She say sho will do s'ompsing dftt avea got no , natuno ! 'Ah, ha I she say, 'I go*, like 1 me l'-r-as-t vizout ze tail -but, Flhdo t I'll do; I'll DO 1' W'ab she do? Ah, ha!— voila, le graand, mysterious MoesiW Shak-os-pler 1 She not »ay what she dol" t This wa»."gmnft," to bo sure; but tho prowtu* of Macbeth, hi Mb "bout" with Macduff, awakens all tho mercurial Frenchman's martial ardor : "Mossi&u 1 Maeaboss, ho see him cotAe, clos* by ; ho *ay (proud en'iprd&eme&t), 'Comp o 7 on, Moosieu' Macduft's, and d-^d be ho who first feay Enoffs !' Zen zey fi-i-ghfc— moche. Ah, ha I— volla 1 Moßsieu* Macbess vlb hitt br-r-riiht r-r-appier 'pink.* htm. vat you call, in Jiis body. Ho 'avtf tfot« mAI 'd'estomac; ho say, vis grattd 6implicite, 'Enoffs I' What for ho say 'Enoffs/? 'Cause hoaot enoffs -"pleanty and he ex-piro, r-r-ight away, 'mediately. 'pretty Ah, mes amis, Mcwßieu' Shak-os-pioi- is rising man in La Belle Prance I"— Burdett's "Word o£ Humour,"