LONDON:
Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill.
1883.[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]
“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.”
Richard II, a. iii, s. 2.
This Essay
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO
THE MAJOR AND CORPORATION OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON,
AND THE VICAR
OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY THERE,
BY THEIR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE,
THE AUTHOR.
INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY.
| PAGE | ||
| Anonymous Articles | Argosy | [46] October, 1879. |
| Atlantic Monthly | [45] June, 1878. | |
| Birmingham Daily Mail | [43] August 23, 1876. | |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, Post | [44] September 29, 1877. | |
| ,, ,, ,, ,, Gazette | [47] December 17, 1880. | |
| ,, ,, ,, Town Crier | [44] November, 1877. | |
| Cincinnati Commercial Gazette | [48] May 26, 1883. | |
| Daily Telegraph | [43] August 24, 1876. | |
| New York Nation | [45] May 21, 1878. | |
| Letter | Birmingham Daily Post | [45] October 10, 1877. |
| Gower, Lord Ronald | Antiquary | [46] August, 1880. |
| Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. | [46] 1881. | |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Atlantic Monthly | [41] January, 1863. |
| Ingleby, C. M. | [48] June, 1883. | |
| Norris, J. Parker | N. Y. American Bibliopolist | [41] April, 1876, and August 4, 1876. |
| Schaafhausen, Hermann | Shakespeare Jahrbuch | [43] 1874–5. |
| Timmins, Sam. | Letter to J. Parker Norris | [42] Circa 1874 and 1876. |
SHAKESPEARE’S BONES.
The sentiment which affects survivors in the disposition of their dead, and which is, in one regard, a superstition, is, in another, a creditable outcome of our common humanity: namely, the desire to honour the memory of departed worth, and to guard the “hallowed reliques” by the erection of a shrine, both as a visible mark of respect for the dead, and as a place of resort for those pilgrims who may come to pay him tribute. It is this sentiment which dots our graveyards with memorial tablets and more ambitious sculptures, and which still preserves so many of our closed churchyards from desecration, and our [1a] ancient tombs from the molestation of careless, curious, or mercenary persons.