The Shakspere Shrines

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6825, 16 October 1900, Page 4

The Shakspere Shrines

isyme interesting facts as to the coin which accrues annually through various Shaksperc Shrines to tlie Fond generally will be found in the Windsor Magazine for September. It appears Unit in twelve months the total number of visitors to the birthplace was 20,510. An admission fee of (ki a head is charged, which yields the respectable su:a of JBOO2 10s. To see the adjoining must-urn, with its many inter esliiig curios, another 6d has to be paid, <>ud 16,y09 also visited Mil- museum. This gives us an additional illloOs (id. At the Holy Triniiy Church, where the poet was buried thu number of annual visitors, apart from ordinary worshippers, was 23,000. Reckoning only the admission fee at 6:1 ahead, we Ret a sum of £575 ; 13,085 visitors lo the. memorial at (id brings us in another £327 23 Gd. New Place, where Sbafcspere retired, contributes only tlie inßiquiGcant sum of £11 17-. Ann ITathaway's cottage at Shottery. where thepnet went a-wooing. li.-Kl 10.480 visitors, which at (id each yields .£202 4s C.d. Stratford therefore derives an annual income from admis-i-ion fees alone of considerably more Ilinn £2000. And now a frish attraction appears in Marie Corelli, of " Bin-abbas" fame, who has added her attractions to those of Uhakspere by setting up her cottage home at Stratford also.