“Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest. As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the marvellous.”

+ −Ath. 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w.

“Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception and treatment.”

+ −N. Y. Times. 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.

Raleigh, Walter Alexander. Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.

7–15578.

A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters: Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre, Story and character, and The last phase.

“A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”

+ +A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 170. O. ’07. S.