NOTE.-The type will be distributed after the edition is printed, t impression of which will be four hundred copies, post 8vo, and o hundred and twenty large fine-paper copies, medium 8vo, which will numbered. Specimen page of the text on opposite page. To realise the supremacy of Shakespeare we must be acquainted wi the writings of his contemporaries. Such masterpieces as Dr. Faust the Duchess of Malfi, and the Maid's Tragedy are of the highest value preparing the student to appreciate the unique power of Lear and Macbe and Othello. But putting aside Shakespearean considerations, it may be justly sa that there is no study more fascinating to thoughtful men than the stu of the Elizabethan Dramatists. Their works were largely planned; a there is the stamp of sincerity in every page. That there is a great and growing interest in our Old Dramatists amo educated men is undeniable; but, strange to say, the works of some of t chief dramatists are unprocurable. The noble contributions made to the English drama by Middleton ar Shirley are known only to the few; the books have long been out of pri Library editions of Beaumont and Fletcher, Marlowe, Massinger, a others are greatly needed. The quartos of Ben Jonson's plays have new been carefully collated. It is barely a year ago since Mr. A. H. BULLE discovered (and printed for private circulation) a tragic masterpiece Fletcher and Massinger, and a sprightly comedy by Shirley, which we lying, in MS., unnoticed in the British Museum. This newly-edited Edition will begin with Shakespeare's greatest p decessor, Christopher Marlowe, in three volumes. An edition of Middleton will follow in the autumn; and Middleton w be succeeded by Shirley. For Beaumont and Fletcher much time and labour will be require but the Editor has already commenced the arduous task, and will give t closest attention to the question, "How far was Massinger concerned the authorship of plays attributed to Beaumont and Fletcher? The remaining dramatists of this Period will follow in due order. One of the chief features of this New Edition of the Elizabethan Dram tists, besides the handsome and handy size of the volumes, will be the fa that each Work will be carefully edited, and new notes given throughout. 14 King William Street, Strand, London, W.C. Publications of John C. Nimmo. Specimen Page.] SCENE I.] Doctor Faustus. Having commenced, be a Divine in show, And live and die in Aristotle's works. Is to dispute well Logic's chiefest end? Affords this Art no greater miracle? Then read no more, thou hast attained the end; Bid on cai me on 1 farewell, Galen come, Seeing Ubi desinit Philosophus ibi incipit Medicus; The end of physic is our body's health. 3 Why, Faustus, hast thou not attained that end? 4 213 IO 20 1 This is my own emendation. Ed. 1604 reads "Oncaymæon," which I take to be a corruption of the Aristotelian ov κal μǹ Ŏv (“being and not being"). The later 4tos. give (with various spelling) "Economy," inserting the word " and " before "Galen." But "Economy," though retained by all the editors, is nonsense. With the substitution of i for y and e for æ, my emendation, which gives excellent sense, is a literal transcript of the reading of ed. 1604. 2 So ed. 1616.-Eds. 1604, 1609, "sound." 3 Medical rules. "" Professor Ward 4 Prescriptions by which he had worked his cures. thinks the reference is rather to the advertisements by which, as a migratory physician, he had been in the habit of announcing his advent, and perhaps his system of cures, and which were now 'hung up as monuments' in perpetuum." 14 King William Street, Strand, London, W. C. 3 Publications of John C. Nimmo. Romances of Fantasy and Humor (Uniform with the Old Spanish and English Romances.) To be completed in Twelve Volumes crown 8vo, cloth or parchmen 7s. 6d. per volume, And Illustrated with Etchings by Eminent Artists. The Tales and Poems of Edgar Alla Poe, With Biographical Essay by JOHN H. INGRAM; and Fourteen Orig Etchings, Three Photogravures, and a Portrait newly etched from a like Daguerreotype of the Author. In Four Volumes crown 8vo. NOTE-The type is distributed as the edition is printed, the impres of which is one thousand copies crown 8vo, and one hundred and fifty e large fine-paper copies, with Etchings on Japanese and Whatman pa Specimen page of the text on opposite page. Several new features in this collection of Edgar Poe's Tales and Po claim attention. This is the first occasion on which the Tales can be to have been illustrated, as it is also the first time in which any real atte has been made to classify them. Am A very important feature in this edition is the lengthy fragment, Journal of Julius Rodman." This romance will be quite new to P admirers, as it has not appeared in any previous collection. the Poems, which have now been chronologically arranged, some pieces will also be found. All the writings included in this edition h been thoroughly corrected and revised, and generally from their auth amended copies. Attention may likewise be called to the circumstance that the Introd tory Essay deals only with the facts, and quite ignores the numer fictions of Poe's career. Poe's Works will be followed in the autumn by Two Volumes Fantastic Tales from the German of Hoffman, illustrated with Orig Etchings by Ad. Lalauze; and at the same time the remaining volu of the Series will be announced for publication in the following spring. 14 King William Street, Strand, London, W.C. Publications of John C. Nimmo. 5 Specimen Page.] THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP. 409 men of the age. He was an especial favourite, too, with the ladies, chiefly on account of his high reputaion for courage. "In that point he is unrivalled, indeed he is a perfect desperado, a downright fire-eater, and no misake,” said my friend, here dropping his voice excesively low, and thrilling me with the mystery of his cone. "A downright fire-eater, and no mistake. Showed that, I should say, to some purpose in the late tremendous swamp-fight away down South with the Bugaboo and Kickapoo Indians." [Here my friend opened his eyes to some extent.] "Bless my soul !blood and thunder, and all that!—prodigies of valour!— heard of him of course?-you know he's the man" 'Man alive, how do you do? why how are ye? very glad to see ye indeed!" here interrupted the General himself, seizing my companion by the hand as he drew near, and bowing stiffly but profoundly as I was presented. I then thought (and I think so still) that I never heard a clearer nor a stronger voice, nor beheld a finer set of teeth, but I must say that I was sorry for the interruption just at that moment as, owing to the whispers and insinuations aforesaid, my interest had been greatly excited in the hero of the Bugaboo and Kickapoo campaign. However, the delightfully luminous conversation of Brevet Brigadier-General John A. B. C. Smith soon completely dissipated this chagrin. My friend leaving us immediately, we had quite a long tête-à-tête, and I was not only pleased but really instructed. I never heard a more fluent talker, or a man of greater general information. With becoming modesty he forbore, nevertheless, to touch upon the theme I had just then most at heart-I mean the mysterious circumstances 14 King William Street, Strand, London, W. C. |