THE SHAKSPERE FESTIVAL
... . HIGH festival was ushered in at Stratford-on-Avon on Monday and will prevail until the end of next week, and Shakspere's little town is full to overflowing with enthusiastic celebrants of its great townsman's memory. To-morrow (Thursday, the 23rd), St. George's Day, and the reputed birthday and death-day too of Shakspere, will see the formal decking of the poet's tomb, inaugurated years ago ...