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MILTON, MASS., SATUEDAT, APEIL 11, Idul 



PART ONU 



icellaneous 



Communications 



IN DEFENSE OF THE DEAD. 



To the Editor of the Milton Record: 



In tlie issue of your paper dated April 

 -tth, uiiiler "Communications," a citizen, 

 ill an item headed "A Crisis in Our Towii 

 Allan^.'■ made certain statements, as 

 folh.w 



■ It lias been years since anyone 

 tried to subjugate the popular Vote 

 to selfish purposes. 



We once had a citizen, who fin- 

 some years, endeavored to assume 

 the role of a political boss, but lif 



became 



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 Ills death, 

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This rl,:u"e a 

 need no ans« 

 made prior to or slioi tl. 

 The citizens, living tod,.,, „ 

 m ililton at that time, knew, and still 

 remember the true facts. 



It IS to the residents who hare come 

 to Milton since his death that I wish 

 to answer the chaise made against my 

 fatiier over twenty-one years after his 

 death. In answerinj; the cliars'e I will 



SERVICES JOR EAS] 



IN THE CHURCHES 



OF MILTON AND 



Special Musical 

 Appropriate 

 Are Announc;, 

 Concerts 

 ools. 



RARE SHAKSPEARIANA 



Boston Public Library's Treasures 

 Exhibited 



in Connection with Poet's 350tb 

 Anniversary 



Original Quartos and Folios on 

 View 



Many Pictures Are Included in the 

 Display 



Boston's Shakspearlana treasures. Includ- 

 ing the rare quarto and folio editions, the 

 poet's autoaraph and many other valuable 

 boofes. tos?Pthfr wuii nctiires. were placed 

 oil exhibition i ■i:-:iy ni tne hne arts depart- 

 ment ot the Pii'die Li;jrarv. m connection 

 with the observance of the 350th anniver- 

 sary of the poet s birth. Probably no 

 other public library possesses so many val- 

 uable first editions of Shakspeare's works 

 and other books relating to him as Boston, 

 and never before has the library made so 

 large a display. There are approximately 

 300 hooks, with a very large number of 

 pictures. The exhibition was arranged 

 under the direction of Otto Fleischer, as- 

 sistant librarian. 



Of paramount interest to the Shakspear- 

 lan scholar and also to the average reader 

 are the rare first editions. The Boston li- 

 brary owns and is showing all the first four 

 folio editions, the first published in 1623, 

 the second in 1632, the third in 1663 and the 

 fourth in 1685; also a variation ot the third 

 edition published in 1664. There is on ex- 

 hibition a complete set of the quarto edi- 

 tion, although it is not made up entirely 

 of originals. There are, however, in this 

 set many of the originals printed previous 

 to ITOO, and some ot them are exceedingly 

 rate. The first American edition, pub- 

 lished in Philadelphia in 1795, and the first 

 Boston edition, published in 1802, are 

 shown. 



The poet's autograph, considered by au- 

 thorities as undoubtedly authentic, is In- 

 cluded in the display. It appears on a 

 piece of paper that was used in the binding 

 of a copy of North's Plutarch. The book 

 was printed in 1603, and was done by 

 Shakspeare's printer, and the autograph 

 was probably attached to some letter or 

 communication which the printer used for 

 scrap in binding the Plutarch. There is a 

 large collection of books that were used by 

 Shakspeare and that were in his library. 

 They include schoolbooks, dictionaries and 

 classics, and also books from which he de- 

 rived the suggestions for some of his plays, 

 such as Plutarch and various romances, 

 novels and poems. Most ot these are orig- 

 irals. There are likewise several Shak- 

 speare medals. 



The universality of Shakspeare is attest- 

 ed by the many translations of his works 

 that are in this exhibition. Some of the I 

 foreign editions are the French, German, I 

 Dutch. Friesic, Danish, Swedish, Lettish, 1 

 Ppl'.s'n, Jjohemlan, Russian, Spanish, Cata- | 

 Ian. Hungarian, Portuguese. Italian. Latin, 

 Greek. Romanic, Hebrew, Yiddish and 

 Japanese; also a copy in Esperanto, one 1 

 with phonetic spelling and a miniature vol- 



I In another section of the exhibit 

 I copies of books showing early notices of or 

 I references to Shakspeare and his works. 

 I Among the earliest is Clarke's Polimantela, 

 a, hook published in 1695, which is supposed 

 to contain the first reference to Shak- 

 I spearo by name. Another is Allot's Eng- 

 1 land's Parnassus, published In 1600. Other 

 I Interesting books are a German grammar 

 I published in 16S2, supposed to contain the 

 1 first reference to Shakspeare in German, 

 I and :l medical book written 'by John Hall, 

 e's son-in-law, and published in 

 1 1679. There is also one of the only three 

 I Volumes published of the edition edited by 

 I Sir Walter Scott and John G, Lockhart. 



Books published by Shakspeare's con- 

 Itamporaries form a separate section of the 

 liteplav, including among them originals of 

 lajaumont and Fletcher, Chapman, Dek- 

 ■k^ Daniel, Ben Jonson, Haywood, Marlow 

 III Kdmund Spenser. Other books are noi 

 -» and plays which relate to Shakspeare 

 f to his characters, 

 f The- I ictures include a very large collec- 

 the birds mentioned In Shak- 

 J plays, also of the flowers, witii 

 , tations referring to the flowers. 

 l;,-lteie are numerous photographs of vari- 

 ' ' pictures of the poet and also photo- I 

 ks ot his contemporaries and of build- I 

 *nd monuments at Stratford and else- 

 1 the Shakspearian country. 



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