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    mined for him by his predecessors Shakspeare ^ s . That , aim , the one aim - I < , of true dramatic art , the aim which he alone triumphantly

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    1 « then he notes , as ' the leader of a host of valiant p Massinger laywrights , and ' of Shirley the third , none period of them , ' Webster mean , men Ford !' , 1 This This division division of of dramatic dramatic progress Tjrocrress or or evolution evolution

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    dramatic art , and Italian painting . , After some interesting remarks on the principles of criticism in its application to the variforms of art

    I VlOlU 1 U iU 3 fkL / L / XAyCkt'lVU W WIU TCUIVUO ous 1 VXU 1 O Ul Cki . K I # Mr . Bymonds views Shakspeare among his fel- ,, lows , and while admitting that without him

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    fellow-craflsmen of the bard with due honourth his ey . predecessors , supplied him he with would the cert forms ainly , sot and have without been what be isAccording to the view t of \ the k - —

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    contemdying poraries out ; of and ' the then true , having Elizabethan noted the impulse decay and —a

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    said to have some 15 , 000 , whiLa the Old Testament contains under 6 , 000 words , and then moreover together ' the with dramatists the technical collected hraseology floating of idioms trades Pj ^ ,

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    plays ; moral plays ; the rise of comedy ; the rise of tragedy ; the triumph of the romantic drama ; theatres most interesting , playwri WPt g chapter hts PPPPPPB ^ W ^ , actors full PPpj , and and p exhausti laygoers— ve a ; j

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    of Peele studies Nash with and chapters Lodand on John Marlowe X » yly ; these Greene last , I I

    three , essays , being freel ge ; y illustrated , from the I works ~ T VX X 1 V # of V »* A their ^ akpftWak ** subjects * J l * l k / IW UJf . « It V . < U will « v > kpkpWa , V even V **** A from * ^ # ** - » this w>— h I

    library brief outline ought of to the be with volume out , it be , and evident it also that ' goes no I I

    without that Mr . say Symonds ing' that may all have who heal read th and it will strength hopo I I

    to Bpeare take ' s up successors his parable as ably again as and he deal has with treated Sbak his * I I

    predecessors . I From Mrs the i ^ askeil same . — ? New Cranford edition and other This budget Tales , ' by of I I

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    seaside tales will or have on the a charm moors for , as all its ages admirabl ¦ . In y addi - - . tion ^ a « to 4 ^ ' Cranford P < . a ^^/ m . / 1 ' « wfw ¦ have Iiawa ' < rVmrvatiV Manners TVfann 6 T 9 , t ppj

    • The Squite ' s Story we , ' * The Sexton Company | 's Hero , ' BigH From other at Last the pieces same / ' The of . — really * Manchester The' healthy / Giant /' a Marri and Kobe ¦ ¦ ¦ attractive ¦ , age 1 by / T and . Anstoy ficticn nw « y - .

    The fflt of for article the A the publishers F » popular 4 . issue Vli in their « of story have k thi ^ Mn VornhiU s which chosen Jiand , U nr . v y has « ¦ an nw ¦ single . ¦ formed opportune AVtnAPfll -volume the ll for fl ' momeni IIlOID leading edition n * » 7 H

    months to announce ' , and its it will ¦ publication * we imagine Magazine in , order only to be af n ** "' * ™ M run runiinon it it at » t ¦ . aU all the the librari libraries es for lor the rno « hoUW « - — - h upon

    copy a seaeon ^ ity and and . The keep power wise ¦ it , for , that however it posflosses it may , will eafel so get y much be the their ai ori ia « » ow ^ > » H g m the honour of a permanent place on

    bookshelf u ^ w ^ k ^ if . ' Its iV- p lot * 4 . i « ba K sed .. J , a * the the re *" * ^ « ¦ ¦ ¦ Attstey tha the Cornhill idea of a if Magazine stolen he in manoseript indebted are aireadyja to ; pr ^ -moui . ^ J . w - " o g fr ^ .

    it is to a eayB tala published eome yeart ago *^ eM

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 16, 1884, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16061884/page/10/