PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1930, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION

TEE MARVEL OF SHAKESPEARE “How many readers has Shake speare every day No one can sav. of course. But. it is safe to say ilia, lie has three times as many, and perhaps ten times as many, as any oilier dramatist whatever. And ,f;">b ably, too, more than any other pool That is the proof of his independence of time and country, which nanothcr way of saying the proof of his genius. And, being that, jic will always continue to be discussed b' voice and by pen. Men of his order of universal genius are at once the same and not the same to each now century. Indeed, every .genera-ion—-one may almost say every man and woman—rediisebve|r;s them, finds in them the old things but also 'something new. and peculiar, something which seems to have been written precisely for' people or individuals who are separated by centuries from the orgiifal Writer of 'th6 vfoVds:' We all want to get into personal • relation' with such a 'man as ShakeT?ear<,: and such as his. magic, such is His humanity; that we all feel we can. ’— Mr John Bailey.