EAR.--Edited by D. Nichol Smith, M.A., Edinburgh.

_Introduction to Shakespeare._

By HIRAM CORSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature in Cornell University. Cloth. 400 pages. Introduction
price, $1.00.

This work indicates some lines of Shakespearean thought which serve
to introduce to the study of the plays as plays. The introductory
chapter is followed by chapters on: The Shakespeare-Bacon
controversy,--The Authenticity of the First Folio,--The Chronology
of the Plays,--Shakespeare's Verse,--The Latin and Anglo-Saxon
Elements of Shakespeare's English. The larger portion of the book is
devoted to commentaries and critical chapters upon Romeo and Juliet,
King John, Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Anthony and
Cleopatra. These aim to present the points of view demanded for a
proper appreciation of Shakespeare's general attitude toward things,
and his resultant dramatic art, rather than the textual study of the
plays.

_Introduction to Browning._

By HIRAM CORSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature in Cornell University. Cloth. 348 pages. Introduction
price, $1.00.

This volume affords aid and guidance to the study of Robert Browning's
poetry, which, being the most complexly subjective of all English
poetry, is, for that reason alone, the most difficult. The exposition
presented in the Introduction, of the constitution and skillful
management of the dramatic monologue and the Arguments given to the
several poems included in this volume, will, it is hoped, reduce, if not
altogether remove, the difficulties of this kind. In the same section of
the Introduction certain peculiarities of the poet's diction are
presented and illustrated.

The following is the Table of Contents:--

I. The Spiritual Ebb and Flow exhibited in English Poetry from
Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning. II. The Idea of Personality
and of Art, as an intermediate agency of Personality, as
embodied in Browning's Poetry. (Read before the Browning Society
of London in 1882.) III. Browning's Obscurity. IV. Browning's
Verse. V. Arguments of the Poems. VI. Poems. (Under this head
are thirty-three representative poems, the Arguments of which
are given in the preceding section.)

A Source Book of Greek History

By FREDERICK MORROW FLING, Professor of Ancient History,
University of Nebraska. Cloth. xiv + 370 pages. Illustrate