Doctor John Moore,-father of him who fell at Corunna, and was im mortalized by Wolfe's lines on his burial,—may be found a stray morsel or two concerning foreign appreciation of Shakespeare. It may be worth noting, as an illustration of how much sooner the great English dramatist was appreciated in Germany than in France that Dr. Moore chronicles the Prussian Crown Prince in Potsdam as "studying Shakespeare (Vol II. p. 251) and having actually read two or three of his plays." The Englishman thought Shakespeare must be all Greek to a foreigner and told the royal student so, and that plainly. The Prince said he was aware of all this, yet he was determined to struggle hard for some acquaintance with an author so much admired by the English nation; that though he should never be able to taste all his excellences, he was convinced he should understand enough to recompense him for his trouble; that he had already studied some detatched parts which he thought superior to anything he had ever met with in the works of any other poet. This conversation, let it be noted, took place when A. W. Schlegel, who is thought to have made the first apocalypse of Shakespeare's true inwardness to Germany, if not to the world, was not yet seven years old. It was only a score of years after Diderot, ranking among the chief of French critics, pronounced Shakespeare an "admirable monster full of barbarous absurdities with not the least spark of good taste. In him nature was pleased to combine all we can imagine of strong and great with whatever is most mean and detestable in clownishness devoid of all wit." SHAKESPEARE ON BASE BALL.-Some one has collated the following references to base-ball in Shakespeare: "The nine worthies." "Pardon me if I speak like a Captain." " Will make him fly an ordinary pitch." "No doubt but that he hath got a quiet pitch." "I'll have an action of battery against him." "Masking the business from the common eye." "Kind umpire of men's miseries." "Must have a stop." "Had no other books but the score and the tally." "As swift in motion as a ball." "A hit, a very palpable hit." "It was a black, ill-favored fly." "For nothing can seem foul to those that win." "Our play is preferred." "The base is right." "'Tis time we twain did show ourselves in the field." "Taste your legs; put them in motion." "He that runs fastest gets the ring.". "Would I were gently put out of office before I were forced out." 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