HARPER'S NEW CATALOGUE,
Thoroughly revised, classified, and indexed, will be sent by mail to any address on receipt of ten cents.
SHAKESPEARE THE BOY
With Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games and Sports, the Manners, Customs, and Folk-lore of the Time. By William J. Rolfe, Litt.D., Editor of "Rolfe's English Classics," etc. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25.
Dr. Rolfe has in this book combined all that we know of the youth of the poet with all that is on record of the life of the time, as it affected boys. In other words, he has described the games Shakespeare played, the amusements of the country-side, the school and the lessons taught, the training at home and the town life. He gives a picture of Stratford-on-Avon as it must have been then, and incidentally calls attention to the influences which affected the character of the great dramatist while growing up.