STORIES FROM THE OLD DRAMATISTS.

NO. 1.—MASSINGER’S GREAT DUKE OF FLORENCE.

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BY ENNA DUVAL.

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“I cannot pretend in these succinct narrations to have rivaled Charles Lamb and his excellent sister in the art of turning drama into narrative. The “Shakspeare Tales” is an unique book, the beauty of which all can perceive who are worth pleasing; but few who have not tried the like, can appreciate the difficulty, the matchless skill of its execution.”

Hartley Coleridge.