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An obvious merit of this edition is, that each volume has two sets of notes; one mainly devoted to explaining the text, and placed at the foot of the page; the other mostly occupied with matters of textual comment and criticism, and printed at the end of each play. This arrangement is particularly suited to the convenience of the general student, who does not wish to hunt for an xplanation; and to the wants of the special student, who desires extended discussion of a difficulty.

E. P. Whipple, The Noted Critic: N. Y. Tribune: As an interpreter Hudson's is the most thoughtful and of Shakespeare, imbued with the intelligent interpretative criticism which has, during the present century, been written, either in English or German.

N. Y. Evening Express: The most satisfactory and complete edition we have.

vital essence of the great English dramatist, and equally qualified by insight and study to penetrate the deepest significance of his writings, it would be difficult to name an English or American scholar who can be compared with the editor of this edition.

Hudson's Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare (Revised Edition, 1882).

By HENRY N. HUDSON, LL.D., Editor of The Harvard Shakespeare, etc. In 2 vols. 12mo. 1003 pages. Uniform in size with The Harvard Shakespeare, and matches it in the following bindings:

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THESE two volumes contain: The Life of Shakespeare; An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England; Shakespeare's Contemporaries; Shakespeare's Art, discus sing under this head, Nature and Use of Art, Principles of Art, Dramatic Composition, Characterization, Humour, Style, Moral Spirit; Shakespeare's Characters, containing critical discourses on twenty-five of the Plays.

London Athenæum: They deserve to find a place in every library devoted to Shakespeare, to editions of

his works, to his biography, or to the works of commentators.

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For High Schools, Academies, and the upper grades of Grammar Schools 12mo. Cloth. 467 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; Introduction, $1.00: Allowance for old book in use, 30 cents.

IT contains selections from Bryant, Burke, Burns, Byron, Carlyle, Coleridge, Cowley, Cowper, Dana, Froude, Gladstone, Goldsmith, Gray, Helps, Herbert, Hooker, Hume, Irving, Keble, Lamb, Landor, Longfellow, Macaulay, Milton, Peabody, Scott, Shakespeare, Southey, Spenser, Talfourd, Taylor, Webster, Whittier, Wordsworth, and other standard authors, with explanatory and critical foot-notes. This is a book that seems to merit a place in every school of advanced grade below the college.

F. J. Child, Prof. of English in | are good for anything generally know Harvard University: A boy who their readers, might almost be said knew this book as well as boys who to be liberally educated.

Essays on Education, English Studies, and Shake

speare.

By HENRY N. HUDSON, LL.D., the Eminent Shakespearian. Square 16mo. Paper. 118 pages. Mailing Price, 25 cents.

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HE volume contains: The Preface to the new edition of Hamlet, An Essay on “English in Schools,” “ Shakespeare as Text-Book," "How to Use Shakespeare in Schools."

Hudson's Text-Book of Poetry.

By H. N. HUDSON, LL.D. 12mo. Cloth. 704 pages. Mailing Price, $1.40; Introduction, $1.25.

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ELECTIONS from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie. Goldsmith, and Thomson. With sketches of the authors lives, and instructive foot-notes, historical and explanatory.

Hudson's Text-Book of Prose.

By H. N. HUDSON, LL.D. 12mo. Cloth. 648 pages. Mailing Price, $1.40; Introduction, $1.25.

FROM Burke, Webster, and Bacon.

With sketches of the

authors' lives, and foot-notes, historical and explanatory.

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Annotated. 12mo. Paper. Mailing Price of each, 20 cents; Introduc tion Price, 15 cents.

Edmund Burke. SECTION 1. Five Speeches and ten Papers. SECTION 2. A Sketch of his Life. A Letter to a Noble Lord, and eleven

extracts.

Daniel Webster. SECTION 1. The Reply to Hayne, and six extracts SECTION 2. A Sketch of his Life, and extracts from twenty-five Speeches.

Lord Bacon. A Sketch of his Life, and extracts from thirty Essays. Wordsworth. SECTION I. Life of Wordsworth, the Prelude, and thirty

three Poems. SECTION II. Sixty Poems and Sonnets, accompanied by foot-notes, historical and explanatory.

Coleridge and Burns. Biographies of the Poets, and forty-five Poems. Addison and Goldsmith. A Life of each, fifteen Papers from Addison, and eleven Prose Selections from Goldsmith, with The Deserted Village.

Craik's English of Shakespeare.

Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on Julius Cæsar. By GEORGE L. CRAIK, Queen's College, Belfast. Edited, from the third revised London edition, by W. J. ROLFE, Cambridge, Mass. 12mo. Cloth. 400 pages. Mailing Price, $1.00; Introduction, 50 cents.

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N exposition in regard both to the language or style of Shakespeare, and to the English language generally.

Shakspere's Versification.

Notes on Shaksper's Versification, with Appendix on the Verse Tests, and a short Descriptive Bibliography. By GEORGE H. BROWNE, A.M. 12mo. Paper. 34 pages, Price, interleaved, 25 cents.

Shakespeare and Chaucer Examinations.

Edited, with some remarks on the "Class-Room Study of Shakespeare,' by WILLIAM TAYLOR THOM, M.A., Professor of English in Hollins Institute, Va. Square 16mo. Cloth. 346 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; for introduction, $1.00.

THIS is a revised and enlarged edition of the Two Shakespeare

Examinations, published several years and very much liked by teachers of English Literature. That book contained two exami

nations held at Hollins Institute in 1881, on Hamlet; in 1882, on Macbeth, for the annual prize by the New Shakespeare Society of England. Besides these, there are in the new edition the Examinations on King Lear (1883), on Othello (1884), on The Merchant of Venice (1886); a Chaucer Examination (1886), set chiefly by Professor Child, of Harvard University, and based upon the "Prologue," "The Knight's Tale," and the "Nun's Priest's Tale of the Canterbury Tales; with some additional remarks on the Study of Shakespeare and references to the Tempest.

They are full of suggestive
They will serve as

W. M. Baskervill, Prof. in Van-ers. derbilt University: We heartily rec- information. ommend these examinations to teach- admirable models.

Introduction to the Poetry of Robert Browning.

By WILLIAM JOHN ALEXANDER, Ph.D., Munro Professor of the English Language and Literature, Dalhousie College and University, Halifax, N.S., and formerly Fellow of Johns Hopkins University. 12mo. Cloth. v +212 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; for introduction, $1.00. THE book opens with an account of Browning's most striking

peculiarities in method and style, and attempts to find an explanation of these in the conditions amidst which the Poet has worked, and in the nature of the themes which he treats. In the next place, an exposition is given of those general ideas pervading his work, which can only be gathered from the study of many of his poems, and yet are needful for the full understanding of almost any one of them. This exposition is contained in a series of chapters treating of "Browning's Philosophy," "Christianity as Presented in Browning's Works," and "Browning's Theory of Art." These chapters are followed by a brief chronological review of his writings, and characterization of his development. The various points treated throughout the Introduction are illustrated by a series of selected poems, furnished with careful analyses and copious critical comments. It is hoped that by thus unfolding, in a few typical examples, the characteristics and merits of Browning, the reader may at once be enabled to acquire a real knowledge of his poetry, and be prepared for further unassisted study of his work. Attention is especially directed to the Analysis of Sordello, much fuller and more exact, it is believed, than any heretofore published.

Arnold's English Literature.

Historical and Critical.

With an Appendix on English Metres, and Summaries of the Different Literary Periods. By THOMAS ARNOLD, M.A., of University College, Oxford. American edition. Revised. 12mo. Cloth. 558 pages. Mailing Price, $1.65; Introduction (with or without the following pamphlet), $1.50; Allowance for old book. 40 cents.

The Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods have been republished, from the fourth revised English edition, and can be furnished in paper binding. Mailing Price, 30 cents; Introduction, 25 cents.

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IE student of this manual will receive just impressions of the relative value of names and books, as well as political and religious influences. Indeed, the adjustment and arrangement of ma terial are managed with wonderful dexterity and analytic clearness.

H. H. Morgan, Prin. of High | that of the student; for he would School, St. Louis, Mo.: I should find much which could otherwise most fully recommend it to any be obtained only by extensive readone whose interest in literature was ing.

First Two Books of Milton's Paradise Lost;

and Milton's Lycidas.

By HOMER B. SPRAGUE, Ph.D., formerly Principal of the Girls' High School, Boston. 12mo. Cloth. 198 pages. Mailing Price, 55 cents; Introduction, 45 cents.

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HIS edition furnishes convenient and suggestive notes, with excellent type and arrangement, and presents an approved formula for conducting class exercises. It omits fifteen or twenty objectionable lines.

William F. Warren, President of me admirably adapted to its pur Boston University: It seems to pose.

A Hand-Book of Poetics.

For Students of English Verse. By FRANCIS B. GUMMERE, Ph.D., Head Master of the Swain Free School, New Bedford, Mass., and formerly Instructor in English in Harvard College. 12mo. Cloth. x+250 pages. Mailing Price, $1.10; for Introduction, $1.00.

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HE book has three divisions, Subject-Matter, Style, Metre. Each is treated from two points of view, -the historical, trac ing the growth of different kinds of subject, of expression, or of

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