23 APRIL 1864, Page 3

The tercentenary celebration in honour of Shakespeare com- mences at

Stratford-on-Avon to-day. The amusements, which arc all in some way connected with the poet, will last uninterruptedly till Friday, by which time it is just possible that the visitors will suffer from that well-known malady an indigestion of Shakespeare, the symptoms of which are a tendency to throw up quotations on every possible occasion. Fortunately for the world, when the absurdity is over the poet will remain where he was before, beyond the reach of injury even from the angry ennui his worshippers will contrive to produce.