| Acad. 68: 369. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
“He knew the Russian peasantry as no other man save Tolstoy.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 659. Je. 24, ‘05. 620w. | |
| Nation. 80: 331. Ap. 27, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Sterling, Sara Hawks. Shakespeare’s sweetheart. [†]$2. Jacobs.
Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays came to him from sources outside his own life experience.
[*] “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of imaginative writing.”
| + | Dial. 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 180w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 260w. |
Sterne, Laurence. Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald; ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.
“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.
“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”