ABSTRACT
In these supreme days of our nation’s struggle for existence and freedom, there is no direction in which we can more profitably turn for solace and distraction from our overweighted thoughts, and for support and inspiration in our hours of trial and strain, than to our great national poet, Shakespeare, in whose works, whether acted or read, while being lifted out of ourselves, we may find expressed more thoroughly and intensely than in those of any other Englishman the spirit and the feelings which animate us—his fellow countrymen—at this tremendous crisis in the fate of our—and his—beloved country.
