This decision was arrived at in view of the fact
that during the past few days the well-known effigy has been the
centre of repeated disturbances, and is already considerably damaged.
We are surprised to learn that there are in our midst persons capable
of doing violence to a noble work of art merely because its subject is
distasteful to them. But even the most civilised communities have
their fits of vandalism. `'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis
true.'
And this from a page of advertisements:
To be let or sold. A commodious and desirable Mansion at Stratford-on-
Avon. Delightful flower and kitchen gardens. Hot and cold water on
every floor. Within easy drive of station. Hitherto home of Miss Marie
Corelli.
And this, again from the Literary Notes:
Mr. Hall Caine is in town. Yesterday, at the Authors' Club, he passed
almost unrecognised by his many friends, for he has shaved his beard
and moustache, and has had his hair cropped quite closely to the head.
This measure he has taken, he says, owing to the unusually hot weather
prevailing.
A sonnet, too, printed in large type on the middle page, entitled `To
Shakespeare,' signed by the latest fashionable poet, and beginning
thus:
O undetected during so long years,
O irrepleviably infamous,
Stand forth!
A cable, too, from `Our Own Correspondent' in New York:
This afternoon the Carmania came into harbour.
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