ction._

SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM.
A Midsummer-Night's Dream.
Doubleday. 5.00

The Midsummer-Night's Dream is the first play which exhibits the
imagination of Shakespeare in all its fervid and creative power;
for though ... it may be pronounced the offspring of youth and
inexperience, it will ever in point of fancy be considered as
equal to any subsequent drama of the poet.
DRAKE.

To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's dream,
which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is
the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
PEPYS' _Diary_.

Some people feel sure that it is a mistake to interfere with the play
of a child's imagination by giving him illustrated editions of (p. 207)
great works. This opinion would be shaken by seeing these wonderful
pictures, by means of which we are indeed wafted to dreamland. There
are forty plates in color, and other illustrations.

FINE ARTS

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
POPE.

HURLL, E.M.
Greek Sculpture.
Houghton. .75

The Riverside Art Series contains twelve small volumes on Ancient and
Modern Art, of which four only are included in this limited list. The
very satisfactory illustrations are taken from photographs, and the
major part of each book is devoted to interpretations of the pictures.
This volume contains sixteen examples of Greek marbles, with an
introduction, which includes other information, on some
characteristics of Greek sculpture.

Greek sculpture can be sympathetically understood only by
catching something of the spirit which produced it. One must
shake off the centuries and regard life with the childlike
simplicity of the young world: one must give imagination free
rein.--_Introduction._

HURLL, E.M.
Michelangelo.
Houghton. .75

We are given fifteen pictures by this great man, and his portrait. (p. 208)
There is an introduction on Michelangelo's character as an artist, an
outline table of the principal events in his life, and a list of some of
his famous Italian contemporaries, with other information.

This is the rugged face
Of him who won a place
Above all kings and lords;
Whose various skill and power
Left Italy a dower
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