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    *i - « : - -== 1 i372 The Publishers' Ci...

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    IMPORTANT NEW EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE.

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    the book will not be sorry that they did so , and will readily recommend it to others .

    Briefly speaking , the expansion of European life in Southern Africa is Mr . Mackenzie ' s

    theme , and remembering how singular a matter it is that in the dark Continent alone

    the advance of Saxon colonisation has been held in checkit is well to accord attention to

    every The present recital of author , advan in tages the and '¦ fi rlst disadvantages place relates .

    arid elucidates the history of the region in which he worked so eariiestlj and actively for

    five and twenty years : He tells of the first appearance of the English ¦ therethe progress

    they MTJT have made , and O their influence , ' X upon O aboriginal life . The protectorate at

    Bechuanaland comes in for a large share of attention , because it was there that Mr . Mackenzie

    gained his knowledge . His views on the subject of the suitableness of the land for the

    introduction of European labour and enterprise are more favourable than those of some

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    Charles Warren ' s expedition is supplied and seems to have had the advantage of aid from

    the commander himself . Mr . Mackenzie closes his work with some

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    *I - « : - -== 1 I372 The Publishers' Ci...

    * i - « : - -== 1 i 372 The Publishers' Circular nOv . . 15 , 1887 I

    Important New Editions Of Shakespeare.

    IMPORTANT NEW EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE .

    The aims of the two new editions of Shakspeare's works which are now before the

    Important New Editions Of Shakespeare.

    public demand more than passing notice . One I is embellished by the characteristic p ictorial I

    conceptions of some of the first artists of the I day ; the other shows corrections and inter- I lish

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    indicates pr «^ *^^ W pp ^ v ^^^^» ^^^ ^ " » *^^ ¦ ^»^ ^^ " that - ^^ i ™ — ^^^ —<^ time ~ — ¦ ^^ and ~— — ~~ — —~ , ^ m skill — — have — ~ ~ not — ^^ *^^^ been v ^^ p ^ p ^ ^ b > ^^^ ^^^^ gBBJ I expended in vain . In a complete form the I

    work will be the most magnificent of its I kind that has ever appearedso we judI

    from the splendid art shown , in the second ge I part which is now before the public . * King I

    Henry IV . is a play so thoroughly English I that one begins to wonder how an artist I

    of different nationality would treat the scenes I and figuresoften so grotesquely denational- I

    ised by forei , gn ^ hands . But Herr Griitz- I ner has already gained English confidence in I

    this matter by his ideal of Falstaff in 'The I Merry Wives of Windsor- ' That delineation I

    in itself was enough to give Herr Griitzner an I indisputable claim to be asked to undertake I

    the work of illustrating ' King Henry IY . ' Mr . Orchardson's conceptions evidently have I

    not been forgotten by the artist . The illustrations have been produced in photogravure

    and the impressions show the care that has , been taken in order to secure faithful and

    clear copies of the originals . Professor Dowden , of Dublin , writes an introduction to the play ( as he did for * Homeo and Juliet' ) and it is I

    announced that the same distinguished , authority will likewise write an introduction for

    H As ^ k M ^ You m / ^* . ^ ^ Like I ^ ' ^^ ^ ¦ ^ It I ^ L / The W I ft >^ . ^^ publishers ^ -i ^ ^ L ^ f M ^ kA B . a ^^ ^^ ** M promise ^ k «^ ' Mia ^ P ^ . ^ V ^^^ 4 ^^ ^\ that the preliminary matter and the editorial

    supervision of each play will be entrusted to competent Shakspearean scholars . M . ' Emile

    Bayard will illustrate ' As You Like It , which is just about to be published .

    of the Messrs c Henry . Blackie Irving & Son edition are of the Shakspeare publishers .

    Parenthetically we may say that the title , * Henry Irving Shakspeare' suggests the ¦ idea

    ^^^^ F ^^^ m ~^^ ' ^^ ^^ ( ^^^^ ^^^ f — r *^^ ^^ ¦ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ « . «^ " ^^ ^ . ff ^ V ^ " . ^^^ , > ^ ^ t ^^^ Hi ^ H IB ^ K ^^ ^^ ' ^* ¦ ^ ^^ . ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ of the i 1 adoption T i of /* a new name b 1 y letters HI I i patent , such as is advertised in the Times

    occasionally . Mr . Frank A . Marshall assists ^ Mr ^« r ^^^ vh . v Irving ¦ i ^^^ w ^^ ^^ ^^^ B ^ h ^ in ^^^^ ^^ the ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ar editorshi ^ r ^ ir ^ B «^ v w ^ b ^ « n r ^^ ^ m p ^ 4 ^^ p v ^ of ~ i i ~ ^ v ^ this ir ^^ b ^ h ^ n r ^^ edition ^^^ i ^ ^ ^^ m ^^ ¦—~ ~~ ¦ ,

    and ties , a contributes long with other introductions Shakspearean to the authori plays - .

    This , edition is sure of a firm footing in popular favour . It is inexpensiveand produced in a

    style that would give it a , creditable position in in . the the best best libraries libraries . . Karely Rarelv . indeed indfifid . ha has s it it

    , , been the lot of the reading public to have a new edition laced at their disposal so

    comp p perfect m ^^ lete ^» ~^ " ¦ F- ™ ^^ «^ pr in ^» in »™ ^^ ^^ text the »^ " ¦ ^^ ' ^^ , mechanism » ^^ so ^ i . ^ q ^ ' ^ l ^^ *^ apt ^ " m ^ . ^ «^ ^^ r ^^ in 1 " ^ «»« Vf of ^ illustration l ^ " «^ production y ^^ ^^ ' ^^ r >^^ v ^ ^ a ^ Tf —^ ^^ , ^ % dlk and . ^ The ^ " ^^ — so

    author siof ' s careful text is scrutiny given com while plete b , and the simp shows le

    contrivance gns of en marginal , line , , y Mr . Irving furnishes ' ^'¦ ' —» ' ' —r " ^ - — an ^^ - ^ - T ~ ~~~ ' Acting ' ¦¦ ¦ ^ " ^ ^^ »—» ^^ ^^ i ^ . ^ K pi Edition « ¦ p ~^ ^ " ^ " ^ ^^ ^^ - ^™ * " ^ ^^ v / ¦ showing "p «^^ p . ' ^¦¦^ "t *^ ^^ ^^^^ t the — JJ I

    passages which may be omitted in representation on the stage . « This is a new and very important feature . The great actor also intro- I

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1887, page 1372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111887/page/6/