SHAKESPERIAN REMEMBRANCES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5423, 2 July 1879, Page 3

SHAKESPERIAN REMEMBRANCES.

No one can say that the genius loci is not paid due reverence at Stratford-on-Aven. In the Skakespeare Hotel in that town, says a contemporary, a house, by the by, where Louis Napoleon slept the 'night before his famous descent upon Boulogne, the rooms are not numbered, but named after the plays of the bard. Thus the visitor may hear such calls from the neat-handed Phyllises of the estab- . lishment as ' ' Slippers and shaving-water for Othello,'' or a Brandy and Apollinaris for Hamleh" It is at this renowned hoa- . telrj, with its quaint Tudor apartments, its theatrical prints, and its intellectual landlady, that Messrs Barry Sullivan and John Ryder are sojourning during the " Shakespeare Festival." The former holds himself loftily aloof from the herd, like Achilles in his tent ; the latter is never so happy as when he is surrounded by an admiring circle of townsmen and youthful histrions, to whom he retails pleasant anecdotes of the late Mr Maoready and the great lights of the past generation, both in the mimic and the great world. " Jack," as he is endearingly called by his intimates, coached the late Lord Lytton, among other people, for a speech in the House of Commons. His reminiscences ought to make a most agreeable volume. Why does he not write them?