ABSTRACT
Mrs. Cowden Clarke, authoress of that wonderful labour of love, the “Concordance to Shakspere,” once suggested that a statue should be erected to his memory; but we consider it far more important that Shakspere should have a house for his soul’s works to live in, rather than a copy of his body should be erected in stone. Mrs. Clarke herself has done the poet a prouder work by her statue in type, which is far more lasting than any in stone. Mrs. Clarke has just compiled another volume, entitled “Shakspere Proverbs,” a wonderous help to our argument, the more so since it not only proves the profit of reading and communing with Shakspere, but it also convinces us how much more telling, forcible, and effective those “Proverbs” are when connected with their context, when forming a link in the chain of the dramas from which they are extracted.
