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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1910. 



W. J. ROLFE. LITT. D. 



Few men in Cambridge, or anywhere 

 else, could have been taken who would 

 have left a wider gap in the literary 

 world than is caused by the demise o° 

 W. J. Wolfe, Ditt.D. It is doubtful 

 whether a literary writer could touch 

 a subject in literature that would ap- 

 peal to a larger or more varied con- 

 stituency than the works of Shake- 

 speare. To unlock the treasures encom- 

 passed by the mind of Shakespeare is 

 to appeal not alone to the scholar, the 

 student or the actor, not alone to him 

 to whom the play with its changing 

 lights and shadows of human life ap- 

 peals, but to the quiet reader in remote 

 hamlets, the lover of action, of move- 

 ment and of fire and to the recluse who 

 lives over again in Shakespeare's fas- 

 cinating pages the thoughts and scenes 

 which have been such a treasure in his 

 meditations. 



It is to touch the gamut of human 

 feeling in many keys amd to respond 

 in strains of musical feeling if not of 

 tuneful melody. Any man might well 

 envy the success, that has attended 

 Dr. Rolfe in the interpretation of 

 Shakespeare's mind and intent. Had 

 Dr. Rolfe stopped with his Shakespea- 

 rean studies, there would remain an 

 altogether sufficient monument to his 

 memory. But he has been, equally crit- 

 ical, affluent and profitable in his edi- 

 torship of the leading English poets 

 and writers. Add to these his prepara- 

 tion of the "Satchel Guide to Europe," 

 which had become a classic in its own 



peculiar line, and his numerous con- 

 tributions to the leading periodicals 

 where he was always a welcome writ- 

 er, his voluminous life of Shakespeare, 

 his authorship of various text-books 

 in science and the classics, with oc- 

 casional excursions into the field of 

 literature on divers subjects, and it 

 will not be necessary to point out that 

 he was one of the most industrious of 

 men. 



A man who could be welcomed by 

 the poet Tennyson as a compeer in the 

 field of literature will need no eulogy 

 at the hands of ordinary individuals. 

 Cambridge has always counted Dr. 

 Rolfe as one of her foremost citizens, 

 from a literary point of view, and has 

 welcomed him to the companionship of 

 those who have themselves made the 

 name of Cambridge to ring and' to 

 glisten throughout the land— even 

 throughout the world. Dr. Rolfe's ca- 

 reer as an educator is entitled to large 

 recognition by itself. Few men have 

 led the youth of our land more suc- 

 cessfully along the dizzy heights of 

 learning. To superadd a critical and 

 diverse scholarship such as Dr. Rolfe 

 showed is reserved for few. 



Cambridge ought to recognize in her 

 public library the transcendent work 

 he has done for Cambridge — a work, 

 let us add, altogether too little ap- 

 preciated. 



