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from the other, and form all others which he ever drew. Let us first take hIs men, and afterwards that still more difficult class of characters, women.

 Macbeth, bold n war, supeTstitiots, urged to crime half against his will, and afraid to commit liking John, eowardly, cruel and ambtious-Fauleon bridge, almost Ceur de Lion in his own proper person, Hal, Prince of nales, iIotspur and Oiendowen, the tyrant Richard, whom you might mis- take for a fieDd in human shape, were 1t not for one touch which, with consummate art, and perfect keeping with the character, Shakespeare has thrown in to ally him 10 humanity, where he cries

 Shadows tonight

 Have struck more terror to the soul Of

 Richard,

 Than can the substance of ten thousand

 soldiers

 Armed fn proof and led by shaiiow Rich-

 mond.o

 Henry the Eighth, cruel, capricious and hateful-W also naughty, ambitious and domineering, but still in way entirely different and Coriolanus, also naughty and proud, are three characters which no man but Shakespeare could have drawn and dis criminated hetween-hEenenins; Agripna, and the two Trbunes-Brutus, with his stern, honest uprightness--Cassius. with his uprightness and patriotism, mingling little duplicity and art--Antony, com pound of soldierly bIuntness, acute elo- quence and womanly effeminacy and ickle- ness-Lear and Kent-Hamlet, Othello, Iago, and perhaps most wonderful of all, Shylock, whose only redeeming point, and that which shows him not to be tiger in human body, IS his love for his daughter- all these are small part of his characters. Nor are his comic characters less varied and less nicely discfiminated. Pistol, Baf- dolph, Silence, Shallow, Dogberry, are all the peculiar creations of Shakespeare, ever to be unequalled. Even in his fools he Is wonderful are no two alike. Lauce, Speed, the Clown in the Twelfth Night. Elbow. Costard. Tovchstone, each IS ssti generis, and the fool in Lear is different from them all. And how shall pass thee uf iiitiitdbiG O dCh T diStdils U1 0uOfu IbNet man was weary, and whom We all talk of asan old friend. Thou alone wouldst have immortalzed Shakespeare. If we would see most plainly shakspeare's power of discrimination in character, let us observe the three characters of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool, in King Lear. The real mad ness of the unhappy King--the assumed madness of Edgar, and the natural imbe- cility and quaint shrewdness of the fool, are so distinctly drawn, that nothing is ut- tered by. either which could by possibility be mistaken for the words of the others While Edgar is venting the most uniointed nonsense, and the Fool rambling on with strange mixture of sense and folly, Lear, true to the one cause of his madness, asks: :" Hast thou given ali to thy two daugh-

 ters ?

 And again:

 " What, have his daughters brought him

 to this pass ?''

 These are passages which few men have pronounced upon the stage without feeling the tears spring into their eyes.

 To be concluded neet ,eeek.