Excerpt from The Society and the Fad, Vol. 2: Being an Amplification of an Address Delivered Before the Shakespeare Club of New York City, Nov, 1, 1889 What I propose in this paper is an attempt to show. That unlike the Browning Society - the Shakespeare Society is not an institution of this character, not organized to worship Shakespeare, or to study the Shakespearian method and form but that it is an institution productive of real benefit, be cause its purpose is to study the matter (the material) in which Shakespeare deals; because we know that this matter is in him without the organization of any preliminary pars ing societies - simply because, so unapproachably simple and coherent and scientific is his form, that we are able at a glance to ascertain whether he is worth studying or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.