Shakspere, Personal Recollections

Author of Checkered Life, Peculiar Poems, Zig-Zag, Jewels of Memory, Complete Poems, Oliver Goldsmith, Edgar Allan Poe, Brick-bats and Bouquets, Beautiful Washington, Songs, etc.
Nations unborn, adown the tides of time Shall keep thy name and fame and thought sublime, And o'er the rolling world from age to age Thy characters shall thrill the mimic stage!
—Joyce.
PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY 835 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
Copyrighted, in 1904.
COLONEL JOHN A. JOYCE
All Rights Reserved.
DEDICATION.
I dedicate this book to the reader who has energy enough to borrow it, bullion enough to buy it, and brains enough to understand its philosophy, with the fervent hope that posterity may reap, thresh and consume the golden grain of my literary harvest.
J. A. J.
It would be a flagrant presumption and a specimen of magnificent audacity for any man, but myself, to attempt, to give anything new about the personal and literary character of William Shakspere!
I speak of William as I knew him, child, boy and man, from a spiritual standpoint, living with him in soul-lit love for three hundred and forty years!