. Review of reviews and world's work. apital example of sudden fame acquiredwith little difficulty, followed by a period of obscura-tion after the compelling power which attaches to amans living personality has been removed. A new and worth while Shakespeare book is Jenks In the Days of Shakespeare, one of theseries of Lives of Great Writers which Mr. Jenks ispreparing for A. S. Barnes. This little volume consistsof a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the Lon-don actor and man of affairs. There is also added alielpful explanation of some of the principal plays, withsuggestive


. Review of reviews and world's work. apital example of sudden fame acquiredwith little difficulty, followed by a period of obscura-tion after the compelling power which attaches to amans living personality has been removed. A new and worth while Shakespeare book is Jenks In the Days of Shakespeare, one of theseries of Lives of Great Writers which Mr. Jenks ispreparing for A. S. Barnes. This little volume consistsof a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the Lon-don actor and man of affairs. There is also added alielpful explanation of some of the principal plays, withsuggestive comments. The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley have been col-lected and published (, Green), with an in-troductory note by the Rev. John Gray, of St. Andrewsand Edinburgh. These letters are interesting as throw-ing side-lights iipon that remarkably sensitive, , who, after years of struggle with consumption andfighting against religious conviction, finally submit-ted, like Watteau, his master, to the Catholic THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. LEONIDAS HUBBARD, JR., AND DILLON WALLACE. (From a photograph reproduced in the book, The Lure ofthe Labrador Wild.) 382 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^/EIV OF REl^IEU/S.


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