| + + | Cath. World. 80: 674. F. ‘05. 350w. |
“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and obviously sincere.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 220w. (Gives contents). |
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. [**]50c; limp lea. [**]75c. Crowell.
“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface, introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument, sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions, illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.
| Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| + + | Nation. 81: 75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 608. S. 10, ‘05. 150w. |
Shakespeare, William. Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). [*]$4. Lippincott.
“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.
“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources, and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.
| + + + | Atlan. 95: 231. F. ‘05. 1250w. |