miracle, though almost as great wonders have been done by the power
of this magician. But where is the "triple curse" with which,
according to this authority, "that gravestone is weighted"? Quite
another view of the inscription is given by Lord Ronald Gower,
infra.

5.--Anonymous Article in the London Daily Telegraph, of August 24,
1876: also strongly adverse to Mr. Norris.

6.--Schaafhausen, Hermann, in the Jahrbuch, or Annual, of the German
Shakespeare Society, vol. x, 1875, asks: "Should we be afraid to
rely on this evidence [agreement of Mask with known portraits, &c.],
there is an easy way of settling the question. We can dig up
Shakespeare's skull, and compare the two. True, this may seem to
offend against the letter of the epitaph



'BLESTE BE EY MAN TY SPARES THES STONES,
AND CVRST BE HE TY MOVES MY BONES.'


But there is no desecration in entrusting the noble remains of the
poet to the enquiring eye of science; which will but learn something
new from them, and place beyond doubt the value of another precious
relic of him, and then restore them to the quiet of the grave."--
(From the Tr. N. S. S., 1875-76. Appendix v.)

7.--Anonymous Article, in the Birmingham Daily Post of September 29,
1877, headed "General Grant at Stratford-upon-Avon," in the course