“The work has been executed with scrupulous care, but the result is far from satisfactory.”
– + Spec. 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. [Works.] Variorum ed.; ed. by A. H. Bullen. 12v. ea. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Mr Bullen’s variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher was some years ago announced to “include all that was of importance in the work of previous editors, together with such further critical matter as the investigations of the past half-century supplied, and also a fuller record of the variant readings of early texts.... It follows in the main the lines laid down by Dyce, and offers an excellent reading text, while much learning is accumulated in the notes; textually, however, it is hardly what the modern philological scholar will regard as altogether satisfactory.” (Spec.)
“Where all the old editions are unanimous in one reading, but that reading is to modern editors inexplicable, the Variorum edition does not hesitate to change it.”
– Acad. 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.) Ath. 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The most striking of its deficiences is that it appears in what the general editor terms ‘modern spelling.’” Brander Matthews.
– N. Y. Times. 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There is no astonishing amount of erudition displayed in the very concise introductions.”