have now two totally different matters in juxtaposition, and in the
same paragraph. In this Death-Mask Mr. Page saw the reconciliation
of the Bust, the Droeshout print (in its best state), and the
Chandos portrait. I do not meddle with that opinion, or the
evidences upon which it rests. But I have inspected all the four:
I have also seen Mr. Page's life-size bronze bust, and wish I had
never seen it, or even a photograph of it, for it destroyed for me a
pleasant dream.

But whatever be the value of Mr. Page's conclusion, or of his Bust,
I have no doubt that the value of his book lies in those accurate
"Dimensions of Shakespeare's Mask," which he took during his six
days of free access to the Grand Ducal Museum. The measurements are
on pp. 51-55 of his book, and may eventually be of the greatest
possible use, if the time should ever arrive when Shakespeare's
skull will be subjected to similar measurement. For myself, I am
disposed to believe that no mistaken sense of duty on the part of
the Stratford authorities will long be able to prevent that
examination, if the skull be still in existence.



A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EXHUMATION QUESTION AS AFFECTING SHAKESPEARE'S
BONES.



1.--Hawthorne, Nathaniel, in "Recollections of a Gifted Woman," in
Our Old Home (reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, January, 1863),
records Miss Delia Bacon's project for exploring Shakespeare's