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The English Novel in the Time 

 of Shakespeare 



BY J. J. JUSSERAND. 

 Translated by ELIZABETH LEE. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" All lovers of Elizabethan literature will welcome M. Jusserand's new 

 book. ... No Englishman who has written on the period has shown 

 himself more completely in touch with his subject, or more fully and 

 widely read in the authors with whom he deals. Want of accuracy or of 

 literary insight is never apparent, and it is very rarely that even the 

 smallest feature is missed because of a ' foreigner's standpoint.' . . . M. 

 Jusserand's book and its exquisite engravings form a most valuable con- 

 tribution to the study of English literature." Standard. 



" The handling has all the traditional (and sometimes rather imaginary) 

 Gallic lightness, combined with an accuracy and precision of fact and 

 reference which is traditionally (there is some, though less, of the 

 courtesy of imagination here also) German. And in particular M. 

 Jusserand is very happy in his historical citations serving as parallels to 

 the novel. In short, it is an excellent book in all ways for the student." 

 Manchester Guardian. 



"A contribution of permanent value to the history of Elizabethan 

 literature. The points of interest about this book are so numerous that it 

 would be impossible to deal with them in detail here. But those who 

 read for amusement only may be as safely recommended to procure it as 

 the smaller class who seek to extend their knowledge of the Elizabethan 

 epoch." A theneeum. 



" We hasten to invite the attention of the reader to one of the brightest, 

 most scholarly, and most interesting volumes of literary history which it 

 has been our good fortune to meet with for many a long day." -Speaker. 



" M. Jusserand's book is scientific in the best sense of the word ; it 

 shows that he has thoroughly explored the literary province he sets 

 forth to describe, and that he possesses in a high degree the faculty of 

 critical co-ordination. Yet so lucid is his style, so happy his power of 

 seizing upon the salient and characteristic features of his subject, that he 

 never becomes tedious or needlessly discursive. To the general reader, 

 and even to many who would call themselves students of our literary 

 renascence, his work will prove a valuable corrective of false preconcep- 

 tions." Pall Mall Gazette. 



"A work of solid value. The book is full of suggestiveness, and shows 

 by a variety of incidental remarks the author's mastery of the subject." 

 Spectator. 



LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, 



