CONDOLENCES.
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Literary history furnishes coincidence
of deaths not much less remarkable than the
recent one in the United States. Shakespeare
and Cervantes died on the same day, April
25d. 1916; the former in af1uent circum-
stances, the latter in extreme poverty
Shakespeare died at his own Strafford, upon
Avon, and was buried in the chancel OF the
Great Church there. Underneath bust OF
him. placed i'll the wall, was inscribed the
following characteristic and appalling epi-
taph, composed by himself According to
Mr.. Irving, it had the effect to frighten the
patrons of dead Poets, that they have never
ventured to translate his remains to the cor
ner of Westminster.


Good friend, for Jesus sake, forbear,


To dig the dust enclosed here;


Bess'd be the man who spares these stones,


And curs'd is he who moves my bones.


Cervantes was less fortunate after, as we'll
as before, death. His grave is confounded
with those of others, and no one can distln-
guish the spot where it should be written,
Here lies the Author Of Don Quirote. The
23d of April, 1916, was also Shakspeare's
birth dag.