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SHAKSPEEE: 



Selection from Notices by the Press. 

 (The Westminster Revieav.) 



'A most elegant volume. Artist, printer, and author have vied with each other in 

 its production. All the well-known spots are taken from their most favourable points 

 of view, and engraved with a skill for which Mr. Linton's name is a sufficient guaran- 

 tee. Mr. Wise is peculiarly fitted for his task. He revels in painting tlie beauties of 

 his native county with an enthusiastic admiration, in which he makes Shakspere 

 share, l)y the readiness with which be localises descriptions in the poet's works that 

 would have no such home-like effect on an ordinary reader. He does this, too, with- 

 out any arbitrary forcing, and gives a new grace to the character of the universally 

 beloved poet by connecting him by hitherto unobserved ties with the home of his youth.' 



(The Spectatok.) 



' A critical biography of the one supreme poet of humanity ; written with skill, dis- 

 crimination, and taste Mr. Wise notices in a reverent spirit, and in 



soberly elegant language, the intellectual talents, the imperial diction and gorgeous 

 colouring, the knowledge, the wisdom, imagination, and many-sidedness of this wonder- 

 ful artist ; but he lays even more stress on Shakspere's moral characteristics, and on 

 the effectual qualities of his nature, than on these more brilliant and obvious endow- 

 ments ; on his genial hiimour, his universal sympathy and tolerance, his serene hila- 

 rity, his robust simple-hearted patriotism, and his love of freedom— freedom of specu- 

 lation, freedom of discussion. The essential goodness of our great poet is the main 

 argument of Mr. Wise's discourse.' 



(The Daily News.) 



' We find the book as good as it is pretty, and therefore twice worthy commendation. 

 We have to thank Mr. Wise for a glossary which not only explains the provincialisms 

 of Shakspere, but, e conversn, gives a Shaksperian colour to phrases in use among the 

 AVarwickshire peasantry to this day. So delightfully readable a glossary as this we 

 have seldom encountered.' 



(The Morning Herald.) 



' Mr. Wise has treated an old and well-worn subject with singular good sense and 

 taste The chapter on Shakspere himself is a sound and masterly examina- 

 tion of the nature and spirit of his genius, as revealed in his works. Mr. Wise has a 

 voice of his own in the matter, and it is well worth listening to.' 



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