SHAKSPERE: HIS MIND AND ART. EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. "He has an unusual insight into the broader as well as the nicer meanings of The book contains many valuable remarks on the drama."— Shakspere. ... Saturday Review. "Entitled to the honourable distinction due to thoroughly prepared materials and elaborate workmanship Every page bears such marks of thought and care, both in matter and in manner."— Examiner. "The best work of the kind that has been written in our language."—Academy. "A ripe, good book, which all students of English literature should value and enjoy."-British Quarterly Review. "Here we have for almost the first time since Coleridge, aesthetic criticism of a high order, which may be put on the same shelf with Gervinus and Ulrici. . . . A better introduction to the study of Shakspere we do not know."-Westminster Review. "The fruit of a highly cultivated, logical, and powerful mind, and everywhere instinct with the spirit of real, poetic genius."—Standard. "There are indications of poetic feeling, and of a sensitiveness to natural beauty which will make his poems welcome to many readers."-Pall Mall Gazette. |