General Literature
The Arden Shakespeare.
General Editor, Edward Dowden, Litt. D.
Messrs. Methuen have in preparation an Edition of Shakespeare in single Plays. Each play will be edited with a full Introduction, Notes on the text, and a Commentary at the foot of the page.
The first volume will be:
HAMLET. Edited by Edward Dowden. Demy 8vo. 2s. 6d.
The Novels of Charles Dickens.
Crown 8vo. Each Volume, cloth 3s., leather 4s. net.
Messrs. Methuen have in preparation an edition of those novels of Charles Dickens which have now passed out of copyright. Mr. George Gissing, whose critical study of Dickens is both sympathetic and acute, has written an Introduction to each of the books, and a very attractive feature of this edition will be the illustrations of the old houses, inns, and buildings, which Dickens described, and which have now in many instances disappeared under the touch of modern civilisation. Another valuable feature will be a series of topographical notes to each book by Mr. F. G. Kitton. The books will be produced with the greatest care as to printing, paper and binding.