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WESTON and HERBERT, Musical Come- @lans; HUGH EMMETT, International Ven- triloquist; BABY RUTH ROLAND, HOPPER and BTARR. ADGIE AND HER LIONB. AND A GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW. See the HIGH DIVING EXHIBITION! AMATEUR MILITARY CONCERT THURS- Phone for Beats, Park 3. e e e e CONCERYS AND RESORTS. OPEN FROM | UNTIL 12 P. M. STEEPLECHASE, CENTRAL PARK Is now the funniest resort {n America. Coney Island transferred to San Francisco to make every one laugh; everything new and novel; ronounced by thousands to be the real thing B0t HiM, king of the wire, 18 & wonder. W eekly Call, $1 per Year Af@mizsion to All Attractions and Ride, 10c. HANDSOME PRESENTS FOR ALL. flnumnmuwmnu POLITICS MIED * WITh PLEASURE AT GLEN PARK Barbecue of Mission Improvers. e There was a pleasant mixture of bar- becued beef and politics out at Glen Park | vesterday, and besides the Democratic | office seekers there were nearly 10,000 people present. The occasfon was the re- union of the Federation of Mission Im- | provement Clubs. There were games for | the small boys and an elaborate pro- | gramme of amusements for the old folks and the good looking young women. The | | theater was turned over to the office seekers, who secured a big audlence | undet false pretenses. The printed pro- gramme told of cakewalks, speclaltie: | and coon songs by well known celebrities. | Franklin K. Lane certainly did not dance the cakewalk and no one has charged that Mayor Phelan sang any coon selec- tions, although they appeared to be the | principal attractions on the monopolized the greater part of the after- noon telling the audlence why they should be continued in office. Robbed of its political atmosphere the | reunion was a big success and well man- aged, and the person who attended and did not receive a full measure of pleas- ure would indeed be hard to please. The barbecue began at noontime. There was over half a ton of beef, 260 pigs and four William and that he | sheep prepared for the crowds. | B. Leveroni was the ct | was an artist in that particular line the | manner in which the barbecued meats were devoured bears evidence. Park band, under_the leadership of John Josephs, furnished the music. he com- mittees In charge of the affair were: Arrangements—Chris Stader, A. F. Rob erts, . | | | | | | Bebrend Joost, A. S. Lilll us Schnee, Melly, Captain R. W. Anderson, Dr. Torello, P. Harrington, J. T. Graham, The O'Nell, Major B. McKinnie, Thomas Crouch. Entertainment—Gustave Schnee, Behrend Joost, | H. E. Griffiths. Barbecue—Wiiliam E. Lever- |oni, H. E. Winkler, W. J. Nixon. Press—Cap- tain R. W. Anderson, A. S. Lillie, Joseph P. ohey. Music—A. F. Roberts, D. L Wryatt, . Blanchard. ————— ! Democratic Meeting. | | | The campaign committee of the Demo- | cratic Central Club met last night with | President Hocks in the chair and com- Fug, which will be held Monday evening |in the large hall at Pythian Castle, %8 | Market street. Mayor Phelan will be the | principa® speaker, The committes ex- | tended an Invitation to all nominees on | the Democrat | addr the meeting. . | CALTFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 22—L. G. Swinton of San Francisco and Eugene Dupray of Los Angeles are at the Empire. J. J. Burke, a racing official, starts for California on a winter engagement next Thursday. Burke will serve as presiding judge at Tanforan Park. ADVERTISEMENTS. [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 93,284] “DeAR Mrs. PiNkHAM—For some time I have thought of writing to you to let you know of the great benefit I have received from the use of ' Mrs. Johnson Saved from Insanity by Mrs. Pinicham ham’s Vegeta- ble Compound. child, I ecom- menced to have spells with my spine. 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The work of getting them ready has been delayed by the rain, and in consequence it will be Wednesday be- fore any of them will sail. | A case of suspected smallpox was dis- covered on the Pennsylvania, and all the painters were ordered to quit work yes. | terday. The Government was not taking any chances, and in consequence every man aboard the vessel was fumigated. "hen the entire ship was treated In the same manner. Every hatchway was hermetically sealed, and the fumigating | gas turned on. The vessel will be xept sealed up untfl 8§ a. m, to-day, and then | she will be ready for the painters again, The case may turn out to be only an at- | tack of measles, but with a vessel that is going to carry troops, Uncle Sam can- not be too particular. Four soldlers of the Twenty-eighth In- fantry made a daring attempt to rob a an in front of Peterson's boathouse vesterday. Two of them were captured by Officers George Lake and Willlam Mullander of the harbor police but the others managed to make their escape. Simon Pleffl came down from Nelson, . C., on the steamer Walla Walla, Yes-| terday morning he visited the water front | and struck up an acquaintance with Gus Jacobs, Company 1, and George Sheid | Company 1, Twenty-eighth Infantry, and | they had several drinks together. Then two more members of the Twenty-eighth | | joined the company and more drinks were in order. Pleff paid for the drinks, and running short of small change, pulled out | his purse with seven twenty-dollar gold | pieces in it. The soldiers saw the gold | 2 | | | | | | and made up a scheme to rob ‘“the hoosier.” They lald the plans in front of the Spreckels Tughoat Company's office, and W. Manning overheard them. He at once | sent word to Officer Lake, and he and | Officer Mullander were on the scene al- | | most as soon as the robbery was per- | ated. Jacobs put his hand into pocket and took out the purse. | Pleft felt him, and, turning quickly, made a grab for the money. The purse fell to | the wharf and five twenty-dollar gold | pieces rolled out. Pleff grabbed three of | them and the other two disappeared, | Just then Lake and Mullander appeared | on the scene and arrested Jacobs and | Sheid, the other two soldiers making | their escape. mes ~namin of Company D, Twen- a i . and started in to take | Jacobs away from Officer Lake. He wa promptly knocked down, and at the Har bor polic tion was booked for disturb- ing ‘the p James H. Cope of 1773 McAllister so put in his oar and demanded ' numbers. @ wanted, and tation as a witness. | ners were searched at the | a $20 gold plece was found | and an open knife in his | pocket. On Jacobs nothing was found, | but half a dc 1 witnesses saw him take the purse out of Pleff’s pocket. Both men | were charged with grand larceny. | Never in the history of the port have the shipyards in Oakland Creek been as busy as they are now. Hay & Wright given w booked at in Sheid’s shoe have just completed the beautiful schoon- er Philipy and next week they | will launch the steamer Liliuokalani. She | is a vessel with particularly graceful lines, | and is expected to average twelve knots | | an hour. She is being built for the Wilder eamship Company of Honolulu, and is 0 feet long, 3 feet beam and il feet | raft. The machinery is being built by the Union Iron Works, and the whole | work s being supervised by H. Johnson, | supervising engineer of the Wilder Com- | | pany | The ferry steamer Ocean Wave {s being transformed into ope of the finest vessels [ er class afloat, also at Hay & Wright's. She is _the boat purchased In Portland by the Santa Fe Railroad, and is to run between Point Richmond and San Francisco. Mr. Hay says she will be ready for service on December 1. Her bow | has been remodeled to fit the ferry slips, her cabins have been changed through- out and her bottom replanked. When com- pleted she will be the fastest and finest oat of her kind in the bay. Almost a sistér boat to the Ph!llgfilne is | also being built in Oakland Creek. e will be ten feet longer than the schooner now in commission, but otherwise the dimen- sions are the same. She will not be ready for launching until March next., and will go Into the coast trade. Martin Sanders, | managing owner of the Philippine, will also manage the new vessel, which has not yet been named. | 'PRESIDENT WHEELER ‘ WILL BE BANQUETED | ALUMNI PREPARE A WELCOME WEDNESDAY NIGHT. President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, Horace Davis and Others Amdng the In- vited Guests. The Alumni Association of the Uni- versity of California will give a banquet to President Wheeler at the maple room of the Palace Hotel on Wednesday night. On that day the formal {nauguration of President Wheeler as president of the State University will take place at Berke- ley. 'i‘he Alumni Association desires to show its hearty approval of the choice of the regents for the presidency. They also wish to let the lncomlni president know | that they mean to give him their earnest | support. More than 200 acceptances have alread been received by the committee, which consists of Herbert Dam, W. A. Beatty, Colonel George Edwards and Prestdent A. A, d'Ancona. Among the Invited guests who have already announced their inten- tion to be present are President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, President Jo: dan of Stanford, Governor Gage, ex-Pres- ident Horace Davis and Mayor Phelan. Toasts will be offered by General Barnes and Arthur Rodgers on behaif of the Regents. John R. Glascock and Charles | 8. Wheeler will also be among the speak- | ers, Dr. A. A. d’Ancona will preside as oastmaster. K During the banquet the University Glee Club will sing college songs. The mafls room will be decorated in the university colors. ——————— DR. ROBERTSON’S FUNERAL. Knights Templar Escort Their Dead Comrade to the Grave. Funeral services according to the | Masonic ritual were held yesterday after- | noon at Masonic Temple over the remains of the late Dr. Henry D. Robertson. A large number of sorrowing friends at- tended to testify to the weeping relatives the grief they felt. The casket was al- most hidden from sight by the beautiful floral offerings. At the conclusion of the services the body was escorted by the members of Golden Gate Commandery, of which Dr. Robertson was a member. The interment took place at Masonic Cemetery. The music at the funeral services was ren- dered by a quartet composed of ul. Lawrence, Alfred Wilkie, H. M. Besworth and W. C. Campbell. The pall-bearers were Dr, J. M. Jasseway, C. H. Murphy, A. W. McKenzie, Dr. 'B. R Bryant, | Charles Dondero, E. J. Ohnstein, George Zett and ar Shele: — e Says Her Husband Beat Her. Mrs. J. B. St. Denis, wife of a carpen- ter living at 67 Ivy avenue, was taken to the Receiving Hospital yesterday after- noon by Policeman D. Owens for treat- ment. She was divorced from J. B. Sears recently and married St. Denis, who, she claims, left her about a week ags for another woman. He called upon her yes- terday, she told the hospital attendants, and upon her refusal to %i]\'e him money he got angry and broke the most of her dishes and some of the furniture. Then he turned upon her, blackened both her eyes and bruised her face. She said she would swear out a warrant for his ar- rest this morning. BISHOP POTTER PREACHES THREE SUNDAY SERMONS Churches Crowded by Episcopalians. Bishop Potter of New York was in great demand yesterday, In the morning he preached to a fashionable congregation at Grace Episcopal Church, California and Stockton streets, and In the afternoon to another at Trinity Church, Bush and Gough streets. In the evening he occu- pled the pulpit of thé Episcopal Mission Chapel on Second street, near Folsom, preaching to a congregation no less de- vout, {f somewhat less aristocratic, than their co-religionists on the other side of town. In each Instance the eminent pre- late was honored by crowded houses, every available seat being occupled long before the hour for the commencement of the services, while many late comers stoed In the alsles and vestibules. At Grace Church, where the Bishop preached in the morning, a special song | service was rendered by the vested male ehoir. The text was taken from Mark, 1i-28. Bishop Potter spoke of the neces- sity of the proper understanding of the lessons taught in the Bible, and suggested that much good might resuit by discussing the lessons of the morning at the after- noon services, as is the custom in_Mo- hammedan mosques and in some Chris- tian churches. He quoted the reply of Jesus to the inquiry of the Pharisees and Sadducees, asking whence he received his authority, and proceeded to draw a les- son therefrom. The text for the afternoon sermon was from the Second Ipistle of Peter, the lesson taught being patience. Bishop Potter said that the text was particularly applicable to the American people, who were always in a hurry to accomplish whatever they undertook in the shortest ossible time.” He said the history of the uman family is a history of slow pro- gress, slow but sure and complete. He declared that when St. Paul went to Rome to preach the Gospel in the capital of the great pagan empire, he did not ex- pect to accomplish its transformation to a Christian city in a day or a year. He k long suffering o t could the salvation of that people be finally accomplishe He illus- trated his text by the labor, care and time required in the construction great modern building. A feature of the song service In Trinity was a soprano solo by Miss Millie Flynn. In the evenirg at the chapel, Bishop Potter spoke on the smbject of hon both In religious and in material thing: taking his text from Second Kings, 5-18. He told the story of the dishonest servant was reproved and punished by Elisha, and said that petty pilfering of small ‘things and the neglect of small things in following the teachings of Christ are but stepping stones to greater offenses against the commands of God. boys' choir sang with excellent ef- , and a soprano solo by Master Neu- schultz was especially well rendered. ———— Lecture by Father Sasia. Father Sasia will deliver an interesting lecture at College Hall, St. Ignatius Church, to-morrow night, on “The Wonderful Subject.”” Father Sasia re- turned from Europe about two months ago, having spent almost a year abroad. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Young Men's Institute. Next Sunday, at St. Igpatius Church, as well as at the other Catholic churches throughout the city, special services will be held. These services were ordered by | Archbishop Riordan before he left for Europe, and are In preparation for the consecration of the twentieth century to Christ. The new chapel for the Ladles’ Sodality at St. Ignatius will also be dedi- cated next Sunday. CALL’S Home Study Circle SHAKESPEARE For the People, FOUR-MONTH COURSE. With the beginning of the autumn- winter term we shall take up the study of Shakespeare. The studies are prepared speclally for the Home Study Circle by some of the foremost Shakespeare scholars In the country. We promise for this season an attractive course. The plays to be read will be presented In the following order: 1. Love’s Labor’s Lost. 2. Comedy of Errors. 8. King Richard IIL. 4. The Taming of the Shrew. 5. As You Like Tt. 6. Othello. 7. King Lear. 8. Coriolanus. The Home Study Circle recognizes the great fact that Shakespeare Is for every- body—the salesman, the mechanic, the farmer, the banker, the merchant, the professional man, the young woman of the home or in the labor field, the busy housewife—quite as much as for the stu- dent in school or college. Shakespeare smdg means_culture, and culture Is as much the right and privilege of one sec- tion of the community as of another. ‘The Home Study Circle is glad to be able to bring the beneficent influences of Bhakespeare study within the reach of the great masses of the people. CONTRIBUTORS : Edward Dowden, Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D. Professor of English Literature, versity of Dublin. William J. Rolfe, Litt.D. Editor of Harper gros. Shakespeare Edi- ons. Uni- Hiram Corson, LL.D. Professor of English Literature, Cornell University. Hamilton W. Mabie, Associate Edltor of The Outlook. Albert S. Cook, Ph.D., LL.D. Professor of Literature, Yale University. Isaac N. Demmon, A.M., LL.D. Professor of Literature, University of Michigan. In addition to the leading studfes by these widely known Shakespeare students there will be special side-studies by Professor Vida D. Scudder of Wellesley College; -Professor Edwin Mims of Trin- ity College, Durham, N. C.; Professor Jr)sePh V. Denny of Ohio State Uni- versity, Dr. Wililam P. Reeves of the University of Iowa, Professor T. M. Par- rott of Princeton University, Professor Albert E. Jack of Laké Forest University, Professor Lucius A. Sherman of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, Dr, Charles F. Mc- Clumpha of the University of Minnesota, and others. It is safe to predict that this will be the most remarkable literary presenta- tion of Shakespeare ever attempted in this country. Newspaper readers who fail to follow and preserve the studles will lose an opportunity of a lifetime. The Bhakespeare course will be pub- lished on Mondays and Thursdays, begin- ni; Monday, October 16, 1893. An ex- amination will be published at the close of the course in February as a basis for | the granting of certificates. and | of a| s FORMERLY OF D — REXEL Dr. Edward {lton W. Mable, Dr. Albert S. Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. Scudder and others. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. Contributors to this course: II. LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST. (Continued.) Study Points to Be Noted. “Love’s Labor's Lost”’ will be of value to the student principally by way of con- trast. It is Shakespeare's poorest play. It evokes little interest either when read or when played. It is of little account as a study of character. It possesses | scarcely any dramatic merit. -It has few passages, indeed, almost none at all, that have value as poetry. Its one saving salt is its humor. It seems difficult to belleve that the same pen that indited “As You Like It,” | “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Measure for | Measure,” and “The Merchant of Venice’ | should also have indited this play. And | yet, weak as it Is, “Love’s Labor's Lost" is | a play that no dramatist of Shakespeare's time, save Shakespeare himself, could have written. Its faults are those of freshness and Inexperfence. Its de-| ficiencies are those natural to an early stage of mental development. It is the work of a young man. It is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, if not his very earliest. It must have been com- posed in about his twenty-fifth or twenty- sixth year, when he had been in London and connected with theatrical affairs only some three or four years. It is more than probable that in writ- ing it Shakespeare’s main thought was atire. He had two ends in view. He wanted to make game of the pedantry and pointlessness of John Lyly's plays, at that time wie most popular plays upon the stage. He also wanted to hold up to ridicule the silly affectations of the cuphuists,” the young court dandies of the time whose elaborate artificiality of | speech, with its cloying smoothness, its | wearisome Indirectness, its monotonous |if " ingenious elegance was SO OD- | posite to everything which Shake- speare would deem proper and be- | coming in the speech of men. In | Holofernes and Sir Nathanlel (the latter, we must remember, was but a ‘“hedge priest”) we have pedantry exposed, in Dan Adriano de Armado and the king and his courtiers we have euphuism exposed. It is probable that Shakespeare had a third end In view—namely, “to laugh good-humoredly” at the clumsy inef- fectiveness of the pageants which the country folk of the day were accustomed to present “at the houses and in the gardens of the nobility and at village fairs and festivals.”” This end, however, must have been but a minor one with | him, for tue main stress of the play is | directed toward the other ends. : The one effective piece of characteriza- tion in “Love's Labor's Lost” is that of the courtier Berowne. It is his character, both as it is unders “dramatis persona veloped in the pla; the point, the zes it has. The female characters of the play are mere outlines. Their portraiture is ‘wholly external. It will be noticed that a good deal of sport is made of Rosaline's com- plexion. This is described 1of course lfl ridicule) as being ‘“‘as black as ebony. Even her lover, Berowne, joins in the general deprecation of her looks; for she s & brunette. “I am t(llllng.\n a pitch,’ he says, referring to Rosaline’s dark com- plexion. All this was in accord Wll_h the fashion of the time which obsequiously and extravagantly gave preference to the “fair” (the truth is, ‘“‘red”) complexion and hair of Queen Elizabeth. There are two other points respecting this play that require explanation. One is the strained and artificial style of lan- guage that is put into the mouths of speakers who are intended to be present- ed naturally, as, for example, that of the princess in act V, sc. 2. The reason for this no doubt is that Shakespeare wrote to please his audience. The play was per- formed at court, and we are told that it gained the favor of the Queen. We must remember that this very ultra-laborious and ultra-artificial style of language was just the sort of language Queen Eliza- beth delirhted in. The same sort of thing is noticeabie (though to a less extent) in another play, & play also written In Shakespeare's young (though not youth- ful) years, and also, so it Is supposed, performed at court, “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” The other point is the coarseness of the language that occasionally in this play is put into the mouths of the female char- acters, even those the most refined, as, for example, the princess and her three beautiful companions. The explanation again is that Shakespeare Wrote to please his audience. Female characters In Shakespeare's days were not taken by women and girls, but by men and boys. It was a staze custom then, a bad one, and one that Shakespeare afterward dropped, to make these ‘‘feminine actors’ utter words and sentiments that derived a coarse sort of humor from the fact that they were not appropriate to the parts the actors represented, but were more or less appropriate to the actors themselves in their own proper persons. The novice in Shakespears study must | that gives to the play ! the dramatic interest | ment, and he exposed them with an | and the natural | the very Dowden, Dr. Willlam J. Rolfe, Dr. Ham- mental attitude to some of the problems of life. It was then the high tide of the renaissance in England. The throne was filled by a pleasure-loving, cultured pa- troness of art and letters. The nobles who gathered about her were as well read as well bred. The new movement of In- tellectual freedom had already broken down the feudal barrlers of caste. Shakespeare himself, the son of a bank- | rupt shopkeeper in a country village, was | rising to fame and wealth In the art of which he was to be the greatest master. Even Lefore the revision of “Love's La bor’s Lost” his genius had won for him the ciose friendship of one of the most sp'endic nobiemen of the court. Is the young peet's head turned by his success? Does he pose as the thorough-going champion of a movement from which he had so much to gain? Not in the least. With his infallible insight Sha peare perceived the follles and excesses of the new Cesire for learning, culture, refine- - sparing hand. High as Shakespeare’s head might soar above the clouds, his feet were firmly planted on the earth, and even in this merry play of his youth noth- ing is more remarkable and more admir- able than his simple common sense. In the words of Kreysslg, "Love’s Labor's Lost” is from beginning to end a laugh- ing philipplc against the excesses of a learning that was becoming pedantic, and a refinement of language that was fast changing into preciosity. It is a plea for simplicity and natural feeling, against af- fectation in all its forms. The: unnatural vow of the King to seek learning at the expense of youth, pleasure and beauty is broken by the natural course of things passion of love. The pedantic masque of the Nine Worthies, with its schoolmasterly deviser, is driven from the stage by the rattling fire of quips, puns and broad jokes, such as rose of themselves to the lips of the laughter- loving Elizabethans. The pompous Span- fard falls a victim to the charms of a country wench and is ‘“infamonized among petentates” by a country clown. Berowne himself, too sensible to yield wholly to the affectation of fashion, too cburtly to escape them altogether, is beaten from his point device wooing, “taffata phrases, silken terms precise, to “russet yeas and honest kersey noes. Everywhere simplicity and common sense triumph over pedantry and affectation, and the play fitly closes with a nature- lyric of the purest type, that rises from heart of the young poet late come from rustic Stratford. Among all the follies and fancles and witty affecta- tions of lively London he has not forgot- ten the Warwickshire meadows “with daisies pied and violets blue nor the homely sights and sounds about the cot- tages when icicles hang by the wall. Truly the words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. Professor Dowden calls Berowne ‘“the exponent of Shakespeare's own thought.” He Is that, and, I think, something more. It is perhaps too much to say with the latest realistic critic that Berowne Is Shakespeare himself. But he exhibits so many characteristics of the young Shake- cpeare that we cannot but feel that he is a pertrait, though perhaps an idealized portrait. of the poet. Berowne possesses to use Pater’s words, “that winning a1- tractiveness which there is no man but would llingly exercise,”” and which Shakespeare must have exercised above all men. Like the young Shakespeare, Eecrowne is a fellow of infinite jest, of a dashing, flashing, yet never savage, wit. Rosaline’s description of her lover is Shakespeare to the life. A merrier man Within the limits of becoming mirth 1 never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his falr tongue, conceit’s expositor Delivers in such apt and ~~acious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished. The young Shakespeare must have been the most delightful of companions, and the account left us of the wit combats at the Mermaid, where he flashed around the ponderous bulk of Jonson like an Eng- lish privateer about a Spanish galleon, re- minds one of the coruscating fire of wit with which Berowne drives Holofernes from the stage. Shakespeare, like Be- rowne, laughed at mere book learning. Little Latin and less Greek helped him to a popularity which the university wits never enjoyed. And finally Shakespeare, like Berowne, at once partook of the pas- slon of the age for making a plaything of language and was able at will to rise above it. In “Love’s Labor's Lost,” as in ““Romeo and Jullet,” we find Shakespeare stooping to puns, verbal conceits, affected and rhetorical diction, yet capable at any moment of shaking off these fetters and rising to supreme heights of golden elo- quence and simple passion. The Play in the Drama. “Love's Labor's Lost” has a stage his- tory, but one that is scarcely worth speaking of. It was played before Queen Elizabeth, Christmas, 157, and we are expect to find in “Love’'s Labor's Lost as in all other of the plays, many words used In senses that no longer attach to the words: For example, in act II, sec. 1, 1ine §2, “‘competitors’ is used in the sense of “assoclates’” or ‘“‘confederates.” But a little study of the context will always enable the careful student to make diffi- | cultles of this sort vanish. | But there are difficulties of a different | For sort not so easily to be got over. example, In act V, sc. 1, lines 344-345: And when Love speaks the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. And In act V, sc. 2, lines 518-519: Where zeal strives to content and the contents Die in the zeal of that which it presents. The meanings that the poet intends are not at all clear. Nor do they become | clear even after considerable study. In- | deed, learned commentators differ very much as to the meanings of these pass- ages, and also as to hundreds of other passages that might be instanced in Shakespeare's plays. Our advice to the ordinary student in such cases as these Is this: Try con- scientiously to get at the meaning of the | passage by a fair study of the text and context. If its meaning does not come to you after this fair study mark the pas- sage for easy reference in the future and go on with your enjoyment of the play. It will often be found that a meaning once obscure becomes quite intelligible after one has had a little Shakespearean experfence. But in almost every play of Shakespeare's there will be found some F;stsages that will baffle a student to the Shakespeare’s Mind and Personality in This Play. Even more interestin, - nings of Shakespeara's Grt Shien we B in this play are its revelations of his | | | 1 told that it found favor with the Queen. On other occasions also in Shakespeare's time it was played. But subsequently to Shakespeare's time for almost 250 years | we have no record of its ever having been performed once anywhere. In the middle of this century, however, we have a rec- ord oc its having been performed in Co- vent Garden, London, in 1839, and in Sad- ler's Wells, London, in 1853. But since these representations ‘“Love’s Labor's Lost,’” so far as we know, has seldom if ever been performed anywhere. Note—The study of “Love's Labor's Lost” will be concluded on Thursday. ESTIMATES COMPLETED. Report of the Sewage Commission at Last Finishea and Ready for the Surervisors. The report of the Sewage Commission will be filed with the clerk of the Board of Supervisors some time to-day. The board of engineers, consisting of Marsden | Manson, C. E, Grunsky and C. S. Tilton, the City and County Surveyor, have been extremely busy during the past few months getting the report into shape. Rudolph Hering of New York has con- sulted with the engineers for the past few weeks. The report contains estimates of the cost of a complete modern system of sewerage for the city, plans for the work In every detail and ‘all the essential statistics In- volved. —_————————— A Denver Priest Preaches. At O1d St. Mary's Church yesterday evening Father Morrin of Denver, Colo., preached a very entertaining sermon, Father Morrin will remain about a weex longer in this city. Father Wyman of Old St. Mary's, assisted Father Montell, pastor of the church at San Pablo, in the memorial services held yesterday over the victims of the recent explosion at the powder works.