Shakespeare and Precious Stones
lative terms had he not considered it to be at least a fairly good likeness. Jonson's lines have been so often printed that few are unacquainted with them, but as illustrating the above remarks they can be repeated here, in the old spelling and form of the First Folio:
To the Reader. This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver has a strife
With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse
All, that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
B.I.
A most attractive and instructive exhibition of reproductions of the portraits of Shakespeare, or supposedly of him, was shown at the rooms of the Grolier Club, April 6-29, 1916. The catalogue28 embraces 436 numbers, illustrating all the principal types. The exhibition also com-
28 Catalogue of an exhibition illustrative of the text of Shakespeare's plays, as published in edited editions, together with a large collection of engraved portraits of the poet. New York, The Grolier Club, April 6-29, 1916, vi+114pp.
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