"Is William Shakespeare's Will Holographic?": With Some Remarks Upon the Recent Action for Libel of Pym Yeatman V. "The Saturday Review", Respecting "The Gentle Shakspere" and the Secret History of the Motives Which Induuced It
"Is William Shakespeare's Will Holographic?": With Some Remarks Upon the Recent Action for Libel of Pym Yeatman V. "The Saturday Review", Respecting "The Gentle Shakspere" and the Secret History of the Motives Which Induuced It
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...suicide--what does the public care about myself? But it is a very important issue whether the ignorance of critics shall enable and almost compel the publishers to pollute the minds of readers and defile the memory of Shakspere by such filthy abominations. "You have assisted this frightful evil, and you ought ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...suicide--what does the public care about myself? But it is a very important issue whether the ignorance of critics shall enable and almost compel the publishers to pollute the minds of readers and defile the memory of Shakspere by such filthy abominations. "You have assisted this frightful evil, and you ought to protect anyone who tries to stem it. Your critic, in a most ungentlemanly fashion (unnecessarily dragging in the name of a lady), charges me with using the name of the Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, Mr. Douglas Trimmer, to vouch for the authenticity and exactitude of my transcripts. This very serious charge is utterly false and libellous. I have done nothing of the sort. I only made Mr. Trimmer responsible for his transcripts (not mine), because I differ from him in several points." The Editor writes: "Mr. Yeatman's letter needs no answer," but Dr. Furnivall, who is doubtless responsible for the review, as well as for the article of 1892, attempts to answer it in the preface to "The Royal Shakspere." Let the public judge who has now committed literary suicide! The paragraph at the end is amusing. The editor is as spiteful as a woman; but the author could not complain of it, for he only told him that " he would not tolerate any editorial comments," and it cannot be averred that he made any. He takes his licking in silence. Curiously, after the severe criticism that the author had not dated the foolish letter he referred to, which had appeared in the editor's own columns, this letter is not to be found in the annual index, but it appears in August 29, 1896. The author was also grossly and most unfairly libelled in the "Literary World," and by similar legal threats he compelled the editor of that paper to insert the following...
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