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The Social Ideals of Alfred Tennyson as Related to His Time 
By WILLIAM CLARK GORDON. 
266 pages, 12mo, cloth; net $1.50, postpaid $1.61 [London: Unwin] 
 acncetal have two departments of study been so successfully and profitably combined as 
literature and sociology are in this volume. It is a treatment, on a somewhat novel 
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of literature. 
“As an acute study of the influence of a poet upo “A thoroughly interesting book. . . . . The work 
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Boston Evening Transcript. the mind of the artist in between the lines and words 
“His [the author’s] conclusions are set forth in Ofhissong. The reader is impressed that the author 
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charm.”—Chica go Daily News. material of his theme.” —Baptist Argus. 
Lodowick Carliell 
By CHARLES H. GRAY, Assistant Professor of English in the University of 
Kansas 
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DISTINCT contribution to the history of English literature. Lodowick Carliell, 
playwright flourishing during the reign of Charles I, was the author of several 
characteristic plays. One of these, The Deserving Favourite, is here reprinted in full from 
the original edition of 1629, accompanied by copious notes. The remaining plays are 
discussed, and an exhaustive biography of this interesting but neglected writer is given. 
Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging 
By GEORGE F. REYNOLDS 
64 pages, 8vo, paper; net 50 cents, postpaid 54 cents 
REAT uncertainty has hitherto prevailed on the subject of the staging of Shakespeare’s 
plays in the Elizabethan theater. Many opinions have been advanced, but none 
has received final acceptance. In this dissertation the author tests the different theories 
and endeavors to arrive at definite conclusions on a basis of a minute study of the directions 
Contained in the plays themselves and of all other available sources. 
The Idle Actor in Aeschylus 
By FRANK W. DIGNAN 
4° pages, 8vo, paper; net 50 cents, postpaid 53 cents 
A STUDY in early dramatic technique. By the use of all available material, literary 
and archaeological, the writer aims to give a clearer understanding of the difficulties 
under which the art of play-writing first developed. As our conception of drama in general 
still Shows the influence of the Athenian stage, the subject is one of considerable literary 
‘mportance, 
“La thise de M. Di . fast die gesamte Litteratur, ver- 
we : . Dignan est fort intéressante: “Er beherrscht fast die g t 
onbiaes Tvations sur les p oe Racin se com-  bindet Kiihnheit mit Vorsicht und — sehr 
OS ahi finales avec les pitces de Sophocle et  gefallig. Auch was er am oc sare ina 
Vo ah sin Sont pleines d’apercus ingénieux; ....  schweigenden Schauspieler Gee aes die 
Phistese’’ <otler est une bonne contribution & Euripides sagt, ist wohl zu bea ae dae shn 
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agt_an Gediegenheit viele ahn- 
aa liche Schriften.” —Wochenschrijt fiir klassische 
Philologie. 
