The Spectator
By Donald F. Bond.
University of Chicago.
As George Sherburn stated,
"If
one wishes to know what the eighteenth-century Londoners thought
about, one can do no better t han t o r ead
The Spectator."
The present edition
is the first in over sixty years and also the first to provide an authorita–
tive text, based upon a complete collation of the original sheets-all 635
essays are reprinted. An extensive introduction and commentary by Pro–
fessor Bond throw new light on problems of publication and authorship
and enable the reader
to
enjoy these essays against the background of their
own times. 5
pkLtes.
In five volumes.
$70.60
per set
Collected Wor,ks of Oliver Goldsmith
By Arthur Friedman.
University of Chi cago.
This is the first collected
edition of Goldsmith in eighty years.
It
contains those works traditionally
thought to have literary interest and a few other miscellaneous pieces. The
texts have been established by a study of all relevant editions and manu–
scripts, and some pieces are printed.. here for the first time since the
eighteenth century. The editor provides introductions and explanatory notes
where necessar y. 5
plates.
In five volumes.
$53.80
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The Irish Stage in the County Towns 1720-1800
By William Smith Clark,
University of Cincinnati.
In this continuation of
Professor Clark's
The Early Irish Stage: The Beginning to 1720,
the
period of theatrical expansion is described in a tour of nine leading county
seats. The author includes in the record of stage activities those con–
temporary changes which affected the development of dramatic enter–
tainment. Considerable new information about the playhouses has been
drawn from all available Irish provincial newspapers of the period and
from manuscripts and stage account books. 12
plates.
$11.20
Johnson, Boswell and their Cit-cle
Essays Presented to L awrence Fitzro y Powell
in Honor of his 84th Birthday
Edited by Mary Lascelles and J. D. Fleeman.
Oxford.
James L. Clifford,
Columbia,
and John Hardy,
Toronto.
These essays, ten by American and
ten by British writers, have been gathered from among Dr. Powell's many
eminent friends who work in the field of his chosen studies: that social
and literary circle which Johnson and Boswell together enlivened in such
various ways. In exploring it, they draw upon a considerable range of
writings by its members, and records concerning them, previously over–
looked or unpublished.
$7.70
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