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_ISSUE OF NEW VOLUMES._
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.