GUSTAVE DORE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 18

GUSTAVE DORE.

The news comes to us that Dbre has " been engaged to illustrate a forthcoming edition of Shakespeare. Shades of spikes and lances ! In searching for the forms' of our respected primogenitors in his •'• *. Paradise Lost," we came across a'pre- ' ternaturally long exclamation point, ' which turned but to be poor MothertEve,and an almost endless figure one, which, 1 .upon close examination, resolved itself into an Adam. Are all our Shakesperian ' heroes and heroine's, the most- tragic^ of whom have always been invested with a certain amount of cheerful rotundity, to " present themselves to us hereafter stalk- ' ing about upon the stilts' of the magic engraver's elongated pencil V O, Gn'stavf do as thou wilt with the bumptious Moor, run the treacherous lago into a Jacob's' 7 ladder, transform the cheetful Puck into : ; a lightning-rod, make the merry' wives' of Windsor into the "semblance of mammoth advertising clothes-pins, and the Brutus, Coriolanus and Cassius, with their trailing robes, into the similitude of a church spire before its final point is clapped on,' butlay^not thy desecrating hand upon - the circumference of FalstafiV 'We can and will endure- much, but a long, lean ~ Falstaff, with a- long, lean -paunch,' never !— -San Francisco Neios Letter. ~