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Vasari’s Lives of Italian Painters. Selected and Prefaced by HAVELOCK ELLIS.
“Vasari’s Lives” may be approached for such knowledge as they afford concerning the history of art and the cataloguing of the art-products of the Italian Renaissance; or they may be approached for the light Vasari throws on the psychology of genius in artists, from which point of view he is incomparable. As the personal friend or acquaintance of some of the world’s greatest artists, Vasari moved in an atmosphere of artistic tradition, which he has fully recorded. In this volume the editor has sought to gather from the voluminous Lives everything that is really of value regarding the intimate nature and habits of the great Florentine artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Laocoon; and other Prose Writings of Lessing. A New Translation, with an Introduction, by W. B. RÖNNFELDT.
This volume, representative of the prose of Lessing, contains, besides the Laocoon essay, those portions of Lessing’s Dramatic Notes (Hamburgische Dramaturgie) which deal with various principles of dramatic art, and which are of permanent interest, together with the Education of the Human Race, Lessing’s last contribution to theological discussion. A biographical note is prefixed to the introduction. An entirely new translation is here given.
Pelleas and Melisanda and The Sightless. Two Plays by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French by LAURENCE ALMA TADEMA.
The preface to this volume, while providing for the reader who is unacquainted with the peculiarly imaginative dramas of Maeterlinck an excellent introduction to them, furnishes also a bibliography of Maeterlinck’s works. For the song in Act III. of Pelleas and Melisanda (“Mes longs cheveux descendent”), the attempt at an adequate English rendition of which has baffled various translators, another song has, at the request of M. Maeterlinck, been substituted.
The Complete Angler of Walton and Cotton. Edited, with an Introduction, by CHARLES HILL DICK.
This is a carefully edited reprint of this famous book, prefixed by a biographical introduction. Pains has been taken in the selection of the type for this edition, which will be found one of the neatest and handiest of the many editions of The Angler which have appeared.
Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise.” Translated, with an Introduction, by Major-General PATRICK MAXWELL.
As the translator of Schiller’s “Maid of Orleans,” “William Tell,” and of various plays and essays, General Maxwell’s work has been received with considerable critical appreciation. An analysis of the play precedes the text in this volume, and copious elucidatory notes are appended. This translation of one of the most notable dramatic productions of the last century will be found as faithful and effective as any that has yet been given to the English reader.
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