CURRENT POETRY. The Voice of the Sea. The New International Shakespeare Complete Sets Sent on Approval By THOMAS NELSON PAGE, lips : crown. there, Shakespeare's House at Stratford-on-Avon. The Best Edition of Shakespeare In accuracy, clearness, convenience of arrangement, and in all that goes to To cheer and gladden every thirsty land. constitute a perfect set of Shakespeare, the New International Edition holds first place. The Arab by his palm-girt desert pool, This is the ideal edition for those who would read the great Poet with understandThe Laplander above his frozen rill, ing and pleasure. Every obscure passage and every obsolete word is fully explained The Woodsman couched beside his forest brook, The International Edition reproduces the famous Cambridge text, which has been for The shepherd mirrored in his upland spring, forty years the standard text of Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Works are given absoDrink of my cup in one great brotherhood. lutely complete, including the Sonnets and Poems. All recognized Shakespearean 'Tis, nay, not man alone - thou art but one authorities are represented in the Notes and Critical Comments, among them being Of all the myriads of life-holding thing, Furness, Lamb, Coleridge, Goethe, Tennyson, Gollancz, Dowden, White, Victor Hugo, Brute, beast, bird, reptile, insect, thing unnamed, Heine, Johnson, and many others. Whose souls find recreation in my breath : The sets are in 13 handsome volumes (6,500 pages), bound in cloth or halfNay, not a tree, flower, sprig of grass or weed, leather. Size of volumes, 8 x 54 inches — inches thick. But lives through me and hymrs my praise to God : A Complete Shakespearean Library I feed, sustain, refresh and keep them all : Each play is preceded by Critical Prefaces giving the history of the play, and by Mirror and type of God that giveth life : Critical Comments drawn from the works of great Shakespearean scholars. FollowI sing as softly as a mother croons ing each play are full Glossaries and Critical and Explanatory Notes. There are Her drowsy babe to sleep upon her breast. . 200 illustrations, rare woodcuts of Shakespeare's times, photogravures and full-page -In September Scribner's. chromatic plates in color. The Life of Shakespeare contains the facts actually known about him, and is interestingly written by Dr. Israel Gollancz. There are The Sapling Critical and Literary biographies by Leslie Stephen and Walter Bagehot. A set is a complete Shakespearean Library. 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