The series consists of the twenty-three plays enumerated below We furnish of the Old Edition, in paper covers, the plays starred in the following list (Mailing Price, 20 cents; Introduction, 15 cents): — *A Midsummer-Night's Dream.3 *The Merchant of Venice.1 *As You Like It.1 Twelfth Night.1 *The Tempest.2 The Winter's Tale.2 King John. Richard Second. Richard Third.2 *Henry Fourth, Part First.1 Henry Fourth, Part Second.1 *Henry the Fifth.2 *Henry the Eighth.& *Romeo and Juliet.3 *Julius Cæsar.1 *King Lear.2 Antony and Cleopatra.' Hudson's Three-Volume Shakespeare. For Schools, Families, and Clubs. With Introductions and Notes on each Play. 12mo. Cloth. 636–678 pages per volume. Mailing Price, per volume, $1.40; Introduction, $1.25. The plays included in the three volumes respectively are indicated by figures in the above list. The Harvard Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. By HENRY N. HUDSON, LL.D., Author of the Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare, Editor of School Shakespeare, etc. In Twenty Volumes; 12mo; two plays in each volume; also in Ten Volumes, of four plays Buyers should be careful in ordering not to confound the Harvard Shakespeare with an Old Edition made in 1851, and sold under another name. THIS is pre-eminently the edition for libraries, students, and general readers. The type, paper, and binding are attractive and superior, and the notes represent the editor's ripest thought. An obvious merit of this edition is, that each volume has two sets of notes; one mainly devoted to explaining the text, and placed at the foot of the page; the other mostly occupied with matters of textual comment and criticism, and printed at the end of each play. This arrangement is particularly suited to the convenience of the general student, who does not wish to hunt for an explanation; and to the wants of the special student, who desires extended discussion of a difficulty. E. P. Whipple, The Noted Critic:) Hudson's is the most thoughtful and intelligent interpretative criticism which has, during the present century, been written, either in English or German. N. Y. Evening Express: The most satisfactory and complete edition we have. N. Y. Tribune: As an interpreter of Shakespeare, imbued with the vital essence of the great English dramatist, and equally qualified by insight and study to penetrate the deepest significance of his writings, it would be difficult to name an English or American scholar who can be compared with the editor of this edition. Hudson's Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare (Revised Edition, 1882). By HENRY N. HUDSON, LL.D., Editor of The Harvard Shakespeare, etc. In 2 vols. 12mo. 969 pages. Uniform in size with The Harvard Shakespeare, and matches it in the following bindings: TH London Athenæum: They deserve | his works, to his biography, or to the to find a place in every library de- works of commentators. voted to Shakespeare, to editions of Hudson's Classical English Reader. For High Schools, Academies, and the upper grades of Grammar Schools. 12mo. Cloth. 425 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; Introduction, $1.00; Allowance for old book in use, 30 cents. IT contains selections from Bryant, Burke, Burns, Byron, Car lyle, Coleridge, Cowley, Cowper, Dana, Froude, Gladstone, Goldsmith, Gray, Helps, Herbert, Hooker, Hume, Irving, Keble, Lamb, Landor, Longfellow, Macaulay, Milton, Peabody, Scott, Shakespeare, Southey, Spenser, Talfourd, Taylor, Webster, Whittier, Wordsworth, and other standard authors, with explanatory and critical foot-notes. This is a book that seems to merit a place in every school of advanced grade below the college. F. J. 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With sketches of the authors' lives, and foot-notes, historical and explanatory. Hudson's Selections of Prose and Poetry. Annotated. 12mo. Paper. Mailing Price of each, 20 cents; tion Price, 15 cents. Introduc Edmund Burke. SECTION 1. Five Speeches and ten Papers. SECTION 2. A Sketch of his Life. A Letter to a Noble Lord, and eleven extracts. Daniel Webster. SECTION 1. The Reply to Hayne, and six extracts SECTION 2. A Sketch of his Life, and extracts from twenty-fivc Speeches. Lord Bacon. A Sketch of his Life, and extracts from thirty Essays. Wordsworth. SECTION I. Life of Wordsworth, the Prelude, and thirty three Poems. SECTION II. Sixty Poems and Sonnets, accompanied by foot-notes, historical and explanatory. Coleridge and Burns. Biographies of the Poets, and forty-five Poems. Addison and Goldsmith. A Life of each, fifteen Papers from Addison, and eleven Prose Selections from Goldsmith, with The Deserted Village. Craik's English of Shakespeare. Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on Julius Cæsar. By GEORGE L. CRAIK, Queen's College, Belfast. Edited, from the third revised London edition, by W. J. ROLFE, Cambridge, Mass. 16mo. Cloth. 386 pages. Mailing Price, $1.00; Introduction, 90 cents. ΑΝ N exposition in regard both to the language or style of Shakespeare, and to the English language generally. Shakspere's Versification. Notes on Shakspere's Versification, with Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a short Descriptive Bibliography. By GEORGE H. BROWNE, A.M. 12mo. Paper. 34 pages. Price, interleaved, 25 cents. Shakespeare and Chaucer Examinations. Edited, with some remarks on the "Class-Room Study of Shakespeare," by WILLIAM TAYLOR THOM, M.A., Professor of English in Hollins Institute, Va. Square 16mo. Cloth. 346 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; for introduction, $1.00. THIS is a revised and enlarged edition of the Two Shakespeare Examinations, published several years and very much liked by teachers of English Literature. That book contained two exami nations held at Hollins Institute in 1881, on Hamlet; in 1882, on Macbeth, for the annual prize by the New Shakespeare Society of England. Besides these, there are in the new edition the Examinations on King Lear (1883), on Othello (1884), on The Merchant of Venice (1886); a Chaucer Examination (1886), set chiefly by Professor Child, of Harvard University, and based upon the “Prologue," "The Knight's Tale," and the "Nun's Priest's Tale" of the Canterbury Tales, and some additional remarks on the Study of Shakespeare in Schools and in Shakespeare Reading Clubs. W. M. Baskervill, Prof. in Vanderbilt University, in the "Nashville American": Many essays, newspaper articles, lectures, and papers on the teaching of English have in the last ten or fifteen years appeared, but we do not hesitate to give the palm to this book. It is eminently practical. Professor Thom has availed himself of all the hints, suggestions, and methods offered by Hale, Hudson, Abbott, Rolfe, and others, and by means of a burning enthusiasm has, as every true teacher must do in order to win the highest success, shaped theory and practice into a perfect system of his own, from which he gets the best results. These examinations give the high-water mark of the study of English in the colleges of this country.... We heartily recommend these examinations to teachers. They are full of sugges-about half his plays. tive information. They will serve as admirable models. examination I am assured of the enhanced value of this one. For teachers and pupils just entering the field of Shakespearian study, a class largely on the increase in our land, - this book will be found almost indispensable. Edward S. Joynes, Prof. of English, South Carolina College, Columbia: This beautiful book is an honor to American scholarship. I hope that American scholars will show a just appreciation of it. Frank Roane, Teacher of English Literature, High School, Lynchburg, Va. I found the first edition of this little book most valuable and suggestive, and from even a cursory Francis J. Child, Prof. of English, Harvard University: No one can fail to see that literature is taught at the Hollins Institute in a way altogether admirable. All the papers show knowledge, taste, and thought, and if anything remains to be added, it is that they are all well written. I agree with the author in all the important points of his paper on the study of Shakspere. Literature is the one indispensable study for women and for men, and Shakspere in literature. I mean by Shakspere John F. Genung, Prof. of Rhetoric, Amherst College: The great problem in the teaching of English literature is, how to combine the requisite thoroughness in detail on the one hand with the larger interest due to the spirit of the literature on the other. Professor Thom's book outlines a method that, in my judgment, very happily solves this problem; and the really remarkable examination papers here published prove that the method has succeeded. |