NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1887.

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No. 6.

THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL AT STRATFORD‐UPON‐AVON.

The American veneration for the birthplace of Shakespeare is well known, and it has just taken practical shape by the presentation to the town of a public drinking fountain and clock tower, the gift of an American citizen, Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, in commemoration of the jubilee of Queen Victoria. The memorial has been erected in Rother Street, a broad open space near the center of the town, where several thoroughfares converge, and where the annual statute fairs or “mops” take place. The structure is handsome and imposing, and is built of Peterhead granite (for the fountain) and of hard freestone (for the clock tower). The base of the tower is square, with projecting buttresses at the four corners, terminating in acutely pointed gablets, surmounted by a lion bearing the arms of Great Britain alternately with the American eagle and the stars and stripes. Appropriate inscriptions are engraved on the four sides of the memorial. The tower terminates in a spire, beneath and surrounding which are smaller spires and turrets. The whole height of the structure is fifty feet. The architect is Mr. Jethro A. Cossins, of Birmingham. The ceremony of inaugurating the fountain was performed on Monday, October 17, by Mr. Henry Irving, in the presence of the Mayor (Sir Arthur Hodgson, K.C.M.G.), the corporation, and a distinguished company of visitors. Sympathetic letters were read from Mr. J. Russell Lowell and Mr. Whittier; and speeches were delivered by Mr. Irving, by Mr. Phelps, the American Minister, Mr. Walter, of the Times, Sir Theodore Martin, and others.—London Graphic.

THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL AT STRATFORD‐UPON‐AVON

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