bability there is in the former (which supposes Fletcher conscious of the inferiority, the too poematic minus-dramatic nature of his versification, and of which there is neither proof nor likelihood) adds so much to the probability of the latter. On the other hand, the harshness of many of these very passages, a harshness unrelieved by any lyrical inter-breathings, and still more the want of profundity in the thoughts, keep me from an absolute decision. Act i. sc. 3. Emilia's speech : "Since his depart, his sports, Tho' craving seriousness and skill," &c. I conjecture "imports,"—that is, duties or offices of importance. The flow of the versification in this speech seems to demand the trochaic ending; while the text blends jingle and hisses to the annoyance of less sensitive ears than Fletcher's -not to say, Shakespeare's. "THE WOMAN HATER." ACT I. sc. 2. THIS scene from the beginning is prose printed as blank verse, down to the line TH "E'en all the valiant stomachs in the court" This transition where the verse recommences. from the prose to the verse enhances, and indeed forms the comic effect. Lazarillo concludes his soliloquy with a hymn to the goddess of plenty. THE END. NEW EDITION, REVISED. AIDS TO REFLECTION IN THE FORMATION OF A MANLY CHARACTER, ON THE SEVERAL By S. T. COLERIDGE. WITH A COPIOUS INDEX TO THE WORK, AND TRANSLATIONS OF BY THOMAS FENBY. 400 pp. Fscp. 8vo, cloth extra, 3/6. EDWARD HOWELL, PUBLISHER, LIVERPOOL MDCCCLXXIV. |