Produced by Mardi Desjardins & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net [Illustration: GAY AND SERIOUS. Engraved & Printed expressly for Graham’s Magazine by S. Dainty] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVI. May, 1850. No. 5. Table of Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles Shakspeare. Ulrici’s Discovery.—Analysis of Hamlet A Gale in the Channel Valentine Histories The Game of Draughts Life’s Lessons Teach Charity Loiterings and Life on the Great Prairies of the West The Lady of the Rock (continued) Home: or A Visit to the City Spring Snipe Shooting of 1850 The Fine Arts Review of New Books Poetry and Music Summer Friends Lines Spirit Of Hope To Mrs. E. C. K. The Valley of Shadow The “Still Small Voice.” To the Flower Hearts-Ease Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico. No. IV The Might of Song The Mountain Spring Happiness—A Sonnet Sonnet.—From the Italian No Joy I’ll See but in Those Smiles Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVI. PHILADELPHIA, MAY, 1850. NO. 5. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE. ULRICI’S DISCOVERY.—ANALYSIS OF HAMLET. BY H. C. MOORHEAD. MORE than half a century ago, one of Shakspeare’s most illustrious commentators deemed it necessary to accompany the free expression of his views with words like these: “I am almost frighted at my own temerity; and when I estimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain the contrary opinion, I am ready to sink down in reverential silence, as Æneas withdrew from the defense of Troy when he saw Neptune shaking the wall, and Juno heading the besiegers.” But the enthusiastic study of Shakspeare was then just beginning. How many antiquarians, book-worms and hypercritics have since toiled and quibbled over him! how many philosophers have deeply meditated him! how many ponderous volumes have been written upon him? How many great actors have played him? How many nations have heard and read him? Surely this mine, however deep and fruitful, must long since have yielded all its treasures.