A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON AND OTHER DRA. MAS. BY ROBERT BROWNING. Edited, with notes, by Prepared in the same thorough manner as the previous volume upon the Select Poems of the same author and the numerous manuals of Mr. Rolfe. No poet needs, for the average reader, such an interpretation as is here given more than Browning. Read carefully, with reference to the notes of the editors, the richness of the great poet's thoughts and fancies will be the better apprehended. —Zion's Herald, Boston. Out of the eight dramas which the poet wrote between 1837 and 1845 the three most characteristic ones have been selected, and a full idea of his dramatic power may be gained from them. A synopsis of critical opinions of Mr. Browning's works is included in the volume. The same careful scholarship that marked Professor Rolfe's editions of Shakespeare is shown in this edition of Browning. The lovers of the poet will be pleased to have old favorites in this attractive form, while many new readers will be attracted to the author by it. Robert Browning will fill a larger space in the world's eye in the future than he has done already. -Brooklyn Union. The introduction and notes are all that could be desired.-N. Y. Sun. The book itself is not only a compact compilation of the three plays, but it is valuable for the commentatory notes. The editing work has been done in an able manner by Professor Rolfe and Miss Hersey, who has gained a high place among the modern Browning students.-Philadelphia Bulletin. This dainty volume, with flexible covers and red edges, contains not merely Browning's dramas, with the author's latest emendations and corrections, but notes and estimates, critical and explanatory, in such volume, and from sources so exalted, that we have not the temerity to add one jot or tittle to the aggregate.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or they will be sent by HARPER & BROTHERS to any address on receipt of price as quoted. If ordered sent by mail, 10 per cent. should be added to the price to cover cost of postage. SELECT POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Notes, by WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M., formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Illustrated. 16mo, Paper, 40 cents; Cloth, 56 cents. (Uniform with Rolfe's Shakespeare.) The carefully arranged editions of "The Merchant of Venice" and other of Shakespeare's plays prepared by Mr. William J. Rolfe for the use of students will be remembered with pleasure by many readers, and they will welcome another volume of a similar character from the same source, in the form of the "Select Poems of Oliver Goldsmith," edited with notes fuller than those of any other known edition, many of them original with the editor.-Boston Transcript. Mr. Rolfe is doing very useful work in the preparation of compact hand-books for study in English literature. His own personal culture and his long experience as a teacher give him good knowledge of what is wanted in this way.-The Congregationalist, Boston. Mr. Rolfe has prefixed to the Poems selections illustrative of Goldsmith's character as a man, and grade as a poet, from sketches by Macaulay, Thackeray, George Colman, Thomas Campbell, John Forster, and Washington Irving. He has also appended at the end of the volume a body of scholarly notes explaining and illustrating the poems, and dealing with the times in which they were written, as well as the incidents and circumstances attending their composition. - Christian Intelligencer, N. Y. The notes are just and discriminating in tone, and supply all that is necessary either for understanding the thought of the several poems, or for a critical study of the language. The use of such books in the schoolroom cannot but contribute largely towards putting the study of English literature upon a sound basis; and many an adult reader would find in the present volume an excellent opportunity for becoming critically acquainted with one of the greatest of last century's poets.—Appleton's Journal, N. Y. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or they will be sent by HARPER & BROTHERS to any address on receipt of price as quoted. If ordered sent by mail, 10 per cent. should be added to the price to cover cost of postage. |