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M iscellaneous continued. 



The Original Poem of Job. Translated from the Restored 

 Text. By E. J. DILLON, Doc. Orient. Lang., Author of "The 

 Sceptics of the Old Testament," "Maxim Gorky," etc. To which is 

 appended " THE BOOK OF JOB ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORISED 

 VERSION." Crown Svo, cloth. 



Recent critical research has thrown much light on the scope and meaning of the 

 wonderful poem of Job which has fascinated and baffled so many generations of men. 

 The rediscovery by Professor Bickell, of Vienna, of the laws of Hebrew metre and of the 

 text of the old Greek version has rendered plain many points hitherto obscure, and has 

 shown that many unintelligible passages are later interpolations into the primitive text. 

 It is this original text, critically reconstructed, which Dr. Dillon has translated, and his 

 version should be of the greatest interest and value to students of the old Testament. 



THE MERMAID SERIES. 



The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. 

 NEW VOLUME. 



The Best Plays of George Farquhar. Edited, and with 



an Introduction, by WILLIAM ARCHER. On thin paper. With Frontis- 

 piece. Small Crown Svo. 



With the inclusion of the Best Plays of George Farquhar in the " Mermaid Series," 

 all four of the leading "Comic Dramatists of the Restoration" to adopt Macaulay's 

 grouping are now represented. The latest in point of time, Farquhar, was also the 

 humanest in tone of the four playwrights. His works may be said to mark the transition 

 between Congreve and Steele (whose comedies are also included in the series). His 

 representative plays are unquestionably those here reprinted, viz., "The Constant 

 Couple" with its sequel "Sir Harry Wildair," "The Recruiting Officer" and "The 

 Beaux' Stratagem." His three remaining pieces, though they have passages of great 

 merit, did not give such memorable figures to the stage as Sir Harry Wildair, Captain 

 Plume, Sergeant Kite, Squire Sullen, Archer and Scrub. Leigh Hunt sums up the 

 difference between Farquhar and his immediate predecessors and contemporaries in 

 saying " He makes us laugh from pleasure oftener than from malice." 



OTHER VOLUMES. 



I. 



2. 



The Best Plays of Christopher 



Marlowe. 

 The Best Plays of Thomas 



Otway. 



3. The Best Plays of John Ford. 



4. & 5. The Best Plays of Philip 



Massinger. 



6. The Best Plays of Thomas 



Heywood. 



7. The Complete Plays of William 



Wycherley. 



8. Nero and other Plays. 



9 & 10. The Best Plays of Beau- 

 mont and Fletcher. 



11. The Complete Plays of William 



Congreve. 



12. The Best Plays of Webster and 



Tourneur. 



13 & 14. The Best Plays of Thomas 

 Middleton. 



15. The Best Plays of James Shirley. 



16. The Best Plays of Thomas 



Dekker. 



17, 19, & 20. The Best Plays of Ben 

 Jonson. 



18. The Complete Plays of Richard 

 Steele. 



21. The Best Plays of George Chap- 



man. 



22. The Select Plays of Sir John 



Vanbrugh. 



23. The Best Plays of Thomas 



Shadwell. 



24 & 25. The Best Plays of John 

 Dryden, 



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Leather, 



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Cloth, 



2 6 



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