Brontë, Charlotte. [Jane Eyre.] $1.25. Crowell.
“Jane Eyre” proves a better companion than ever in the handy form of the “Thin paper classics” series.
[*] Brooke, Stopford Augustus. On ten plays of Shakespeare. [*]$2.25. Holt.
A delightful discussion of ten plays of Shakespeare in which is reflected a wealth of suggestion from extended research and sound judgment. The author’s side light revelations of Shakespeare himself are suggestively framed in the following: “Deeply as Shakespeare felt the woe, wickedness and weakness of humanity, he was still their master.... This power to stand outside as well as inside of human sorrow belonged to Shakespeare, because at the deepest root of him, was, I repeat, delight of life; even rapture—the word is not too strong—with the playfulness of its spring and the fulness of its summer.”
[*] “Will be sure of a welcome when he comes forward with these acute, thoughtful, sympathetic studies in the plays of Shakespeare.”
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[*] Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances. Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v. [**]$7. Scribner.
Mrs. Brookfield, the charming, witty and beautiful niece of Hallam, the historian, and her well known husband, William Henry Brookfield, fashionable preacher and ready writer, were the center of an exclusive intellectual circle and numbered among their friends Thackeray, Carlyle, FitzGerald, Tennyson, Mrs. Proctor, Lady Ashburton and many other interesting people. In this account of them which has been prepared by their son Charles and his wife, extracts from letters and diaries aid in furnishing much chatty information and many anecdotes concerning the social and literary London of their time.
[*] “This is one of the most delightful books of memoirs which we have seen for many years.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 1143. N. 4, ‘05. 1740w. |