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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 7, 1 April 1884, Page 8

We hear that Ivo has been winning' golden opinions at Oamaru, continuing to rapidly make to himself a high and permanent place on the Freethought platform. What we call miracles and wonders of art are not so to him who created them ; for they were created by the natural movements of his own great soul. Statues, paintings, churches, poems, arc but shadows of himself. •—Longfellow. The London coi respondent of the * Chester Guardian says: Apropos to the late impassioned controveisy over Shakespeare s relics, it may be worth while to note that evidence has now come to light which proves that the grave has not only been already opened, but that the remains were seen and examined by a gentleman at Stratford not many years since deceased. Beyond question the skull was at that late period still in a perfedt state, and the statement of Mr. H alii well Phillips on this subject will require serious modification, not to say reversal. It may further be noted that a curse similar to that inscribed on the tomb has been found on various .other tombs, and that it appeals to have been a common form of deprecating removal to a charnel house. G