At a representative meeting of Welshmen Mr. Jones ap Jones moved that, as a protest against Shakspeare's treatment of Fluellen and the Cymric vegetable symbol, Henry V. "be no longer taught in Welsh schools or read at Jesus College, Oxford, whateffer."
At a recent meeting of the S.P.R. it was proposed by Sir A. Conan Doyle, of Oliver Lodge, Ether, Surrey, "that the Board of Education be asked, in the interests of scientific truth, to suspend the teaching of Hamlet until the scenes in which the Ghost appears shall have been emended in the light of modern research by a committee of psychical experts appointed for the purpose. The proposer quoted the line spoken by Hamlet to the apparition:—
"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,"
and said he would like to substitute for it, "Be thou a subjective hallucination arising from an uprush of inhibited emotional disturbance from the subliminal consciousness, or the objectivisation of a telepathic communication from the extra-corporeal sphere of being, or, finally, a manifestation to sensory perception of some supra-normal undulatory movement of the ether."
He had always deprecated, he said, the meddling of untrained amateurs with the details of psychic phenomena, and felt that the rule should be made retrospective. An amendment was carried to add Julius Cæsar and Richard III. to the motion for similar reasons.
The Labour Party have decided to ask Mr. Fisher to ban Coriolanus on the ground that many of the speeches of the chief character betray an anti-democratic bias, out of keeping with the ideals that should be set before the rising generation. Phrases like "The mutable rank-scented many," applied to the proletariat, could only foster the bourgeois prejudices of jaundiced reactionaries and teach the young scions of the capitalist classes to look down upon the manual worker.
"For Sale Black Ebony Gentleman's Shaving Outfit."—Local Paper.
We gather that our coloured brother is about to grow a beard.