| + | Nation. 85: 516. D. 5, ’07. 130w. |
Gayley, Charles Mills. Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.
7–30422.
An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example, illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit of scientific ends.”
“His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
| + + | Dial. 43: 282. N. 1, ’07. 970w. |
“As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but its interest is for the specialist alone.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1311. N. 28, ’07. 710w. |
“A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it possesses a value for the specialist.”