Hudson's Expurgated Shakespeare. For Schools, Clubs, and Families. Revised and enlarged Editions of twenty-three Plays. Carefully expurgated, with Explanatory Notes at the bottom of the page, and Critical Notes at the end of each volume. By H. N. HUDSON, LL.D., Editor of The Harvard Shakespeare. One play in each volume. Square 16mo. Varying in size from 128-253 pages. Mailing Price of each: Cloth, 50 cents; Paper, 35 cents. Introduction Price: Cloth, 45 cents; Paper, 30 cents. Per set (in box), $12.00. (To Teachers, $10.00.) SOME of the special features of this edition are the convenient size and shape of the volumes; the clear type, superior presswork, and attractive binding; the ample introductions; the explanatory notes, easily found at the foot of the page; the critical notes for special study; the judicious expurgation, never mangling either style or story; the acute and sympathetic criticism that has come to be associated with Dr. HUDSON's name; and, finally, the reasonableness of the price. Oliver Wendell Holmes: An edi- | very mind and heart of "the thoution of any play of Shakespeare's to sand-souled Shakespeare." which Mr. Hudson's name is affixed does not need a line from anybody to commend it. Cyrus Northrop, Prof. of English Literature, Yale College: They are convenient in form and edited by Hudson, two good things which I can see at a glance. Hiram Corson, Prof. of Rhet. and Eng. Lit., Cornell University: I consider them altogether excellent. The notes give all the aid needed for an understanding of the text, without waste and distraction of the student's mind. The introductory matter to the several plays is especially worthy of approbation. (Jan. 28, 1887.) C. F. P. Bancroft, Prin. of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.: Mr. Hudson's appreciation of Shakespeare amounted to genius. His editing accordingly exhibits more than learning and industry. — it reveals insight, sympathy, and conviction. He leads the pupil into the Byron Groce, Master in Public Latin School, Boston: The amended text is satisfactory; the typography is excellent; the notes are brief, always helpful, not too numerous, and put where they will do the most good; the introductions are vigorous, inspiriting, keenly and soundly critical, and very attractive to boys, especially on account of their directness and warmth, for all boys like enthusiasm. (Jan. 22, 1887.) C. T. Winchester, Prof. of English, Wesleyan University: The notes and comments in the school edition are admirably fitted to the need of the student, removing his difficulties by stimulating his interest and quickening his perception. (Feb. 10, 1887.) A. C. Perkins, Prin. of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn: In the preparation of the School Shakespeare, Mr. Hudson met fully the capacities and needs of students in our schools and colleges. (Feb. 4, 1887.) The series consists of the twenty-three plays enumerated below We furnish of the Old Edition, in paper covers, the plays starred in the following list (Mailing Price, 25 cents; Introduction, 20 cents):— Hudson's Three-Volume Shakespeare. For Schools, Families, and Clubs. With Introductions and Notes on each Play. 12mo. Cloth. 636-678 pages per volume. Mailing Price, per volume, $1.40; Introduction, $1.25. The plays included in the three volumes respectively are indicated by figures in the above list. The Harvard Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. By HENRY N HUDSON, LL.D., Author of the Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare, Editor of School Shakespeare, etc. In Twenty Volumes; 12mo; two plays in each volume; also in Ten Volumes, of four plays each. Buyers should be careful in ordering not to confound the Harvard Shakespeare with an Old Edition made in 1851, and sold under another name. THIS HIS is pre-eminently the edition for libraries, students, and general readers. The type, paper, and binding are attractive and superior, and the notes represent the editor's ripest thought. |