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                    THE MENTOR 1916.05.01, No. 106,
                    American Pioneer Prose Writers

                            LEARN ONE THING
                               EVERY DAY

                    MAY 1 1916      SERIAL NO. 106

                                  THE
                                MENTOR

                           AMERICAN PIONEER
                             PROSE WRITERS

                         By HAMILTON W. MABIE
                           Author and Editor

                    DEPARTMENT OF         VOLUME 4
                    LITERATURE            NUMBER 6

                         FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY




Fame In Name Only


What do we really know of them--these library gods of ours? We know
them by name; their names are household words. We know them by fame;
their fame is immortal. So we pay tribute to them by purchasing their
books--and, too often, rest satisfied with that. The riches that they
offer us are within arm’s length, and we leave them there. We go our
ways seeking for mental nourishment, when our larders at home are full.

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Three hundred years ago last week William Shakespeare died, but
Shakespeare, the poet, is more alive today than when his bones were
laid to rest in Stratford. It was not until seven years after his
death that the first collected edition of his works was published.
Today there are thousands of editions, and new ones appear each year.
It seems that we must all have Shakespeare in our homes. And why? Is
it simply to give character to our bookshelves; or is it because we
realize that the works of Shakespeare and of his fellow immortals are
the foundation stones of literature, and that we want to