“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr. Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.
[*] “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 840w. |
“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 100w. |
“An authentic, complete, and accurately printed text.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 92. F. 2, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 100w. |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahon. [**]$1.40. McClurg.
The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The selections are grouped under the various years included in the time covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from England during the last four years of his life.
[*] “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the point.”