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THE SHAKSPEAEE XOVELS: 



I. 



THE YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE. 



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S H A K S P E A*R E AND HIS F R I E N D a 



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CRITICAL NOTICES. 



We have been better -pleased with these works than with any w<' have met 

 with for a long time. The ground upon which the author has ventured is fearfully- 

 full of difficulties, but he has threaded his way with most admirable skill. Shaks- 

 peare, Burbage, Sir Walter RnleiL'h, Lord Burieich, and Elizabeth, are brought in 

 vivid portraiture before us — the generous disposition, ready wit, and noble bearing 

 of the immortal poet, bemg pictured with the rarest success — London Age. 



The easy bnoyancj' and untiring vigor of the composition are very remarkable, 

 as welJ as the living manners displayed in the books. — London Spectator. 



There is in these novels a great deal of kindly wit and humor, and a most 

 pervading spirit of humanity. Shakspeare and the other favorite characters are 

 represented in a warm, genial light, and the mind of the reader really gets, through 

 them, a much broader and nearer view of that wonderful age. — Am. Review. 



They are among the few works of fiction that will not perish with the read- 

 ing; for, as long as Shakspeare endures, these -"Notes" of his times and his 

 contemporaries, will find readeiE and adinir-ers — Hunfs ^Jngnzine. 



A short time since, there fell into our hands a Paris copy of this historical series, 

 and we thought then, and think still, that they formed one of the most delightfel pro- 

 ductions we ever read — worthy -of their great subject, which is the strongest 

 praise it is possible to give — -Sunday Dispatch. 



A more fitting person and era cokW ecsrcely be found for a skilfyl writer, for 

 the reader s sympatlry is secured in advance — nor will be fail to find much interest 

 in the execution of -this work. — N. Y. Com. Advertiser. 



Famed historical romances, which, like the Waverly series, " are not for a day, 

 but for all time." — .V. V. Sun. 



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