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VAIN FORTUNE. ByGeorge Moore. With Eleven Illustrations byMaurice Greiffenhagen.

MODERN PAINTING. A Volume of Essays. ByGeorge Moore.

PEER GYNT:A Dramatic Poem. ByHenrik Ibsen. Translated byWilliamandCharles Archer.

AMONG THE CAMPS; OR, YOUNG PEOPLE’S STORIES OF THE WAR. ByThomas Nelson Page. (Illustrated.)

THE MUSIC OF THE POETS:A Musicians’ Birthday Book. Edited byEleonore D’Esterre Keeling.

THE GERM-PLASM:A Theory of Heredity. ByAugust Weismann, Professor in the University of Freiburg-in-Breisgau.

DRAMATIC ESSAYS.EDITED BYWILLIAM ARCHER AND ROBERT W. LOWE.Three Volumes, Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 3/6 each.

DRAMATIC ESSAYS.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM ARCHER AND ROBERT W. LOWE.

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Dramatic Criticism, as we now understand it—the systematic appraisement from day to day and week to week of contemporary plays and acting—began in England about the beginning of the present century. Until very near the end of the eighteenth century, “the critics” gave direct utterance to their judgments in the theatre itself, or in the coffeehouses, only occasionally straying into print in letters to the news-sheets, or in lampoons or panegyrics in prose or verse, published in pamphlet form. Modern criticism began with modern journalism; but some of its earliest utterances were of far more than ephemeral value. During the earlier half of the present century several of the leading essayists of the day—men of the first literary eminence—concerned themselves largely with the theatre. Under the title of

“DRAMATIC ESSAYS”

will be issued, in three volumes, such of their theatrical criticisms as seem to be of abiding interest.

THE FIRST SERIESwill contain selections from the criticisms of LEIGH HUNT, both those published in 1807 (long out of print), and the admirable articles contributed more than twenty years later toThe Tatler, and never republished.

THE SECOND SERIESwill contain selections from the criticisms of WILLIAM HAZLITT. Hazlitt’s Essays on Kean and his contemporaries have long been inaccessible, save to collectors.

THE THIRD SERIESwill contain hitherto uncollected criticisms by JOHN FORSTER, GEORGE HENRY LEWES, and others, with selections from the writings of WILLIAM ROBSON (The Old Playgoer).

The Essays will be concisely but adequately annotated, and each volume will contain an Introduction byWilliam Archer, and an Engraved Portrait Frontispiece.

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MODERN PAINTING.

By GEORGE MOORE.

SOME PRESS NOTICES.

“Of the very few books on art that painters and critics should on no account leave unread this is surely one.”—The Studio.

“His book is one of the best books about pictures that have come into our hands for some years.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“If there is an art critic who knows exactly what he means and says it with exemplary lucidity, it is ‘G. M.’”—The Sketch.

“A more original, a better informed, a more suggestive, and let us add, a more amusing work on the art of to-day, we have never read than this volume.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Impressionism, to use that word, in the absence of any fitter one,—the impressionism which makes his own writing on art in this volume so effective, is, in short, the secret both of his likes and dislikes, his hatred of what he thinks conventional and mechanic, together with his very alert and careful evaluation of what comes home to him as straightforward, whether in Reynolds, or Rubens, or Ruysdael, in Japan, in Paris, or in modern England.”—Mr. Pater inThe Chronicle.

“As an art critic Mr. George Moore certainly has some signal advantages. He is never dull, he is frankly personal, he is untroubled by tradition.”—Westminster Gazette.

“Mr. Moore, in spite of the impediments that he puts in the way of his own effectiveness, is one of the most competent writers on painting that we have.”—Manchester Guardian.

“His [Mr. Moore’s] book is one that cannot fail to be much talked about; and everyone who is interested in modern painting will do well to make acquaintance with its views.”—Scottish Leader.

“As everybody knows by this time, Mr. Moore is a person of strong opinions and strong dislikes, and has the gift of expressing both in pungent language.”—The Times.

“Of his [Mr. Moore’s] sincerity, of his courage, and of his candour there can be no doubt.... One of the most interesting writers on art that we have.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE.Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 3s. 6d. each.TWENTIETH EDITION.A MUMMER’S WIFE.

WORKS BY GEORGE MOORE.

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EIGHTH EDITION.A MODERN LOVER.

EIGHTH EDITION.

A MODERN LOVER.

“It would be difficult to praise too highly the strength, truth, delicacy, and pathos of the incident of Gwynnie Lloyd, and the admirable treatment of the great sacrifice she makes.”—Spectator.

SEVENTH EDITION.A DRAMA IN MUSLIN.

SEVENTH EDITION.

A DRAMA IN MUSLIN.

“Mr. George Moore’s work stands on a very much higher plane than the facile fiction of the circulating libraries.... The characters are drawn with patient care, and with a power of individualisation which marks the born novelist. It is a serious, powerful, and in many respects edifying book.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 6s.VAIN FORTUNE.With Eleven Illustrations byMaurice Greiffenhagen.A few Large-Paper Copies on Hand-made Paper, Price One Guinea net.A VOLUME of ESSAYS by GEORGE MOORE.Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 6s.MODERN PAINTING.Crown 8vo, Cloth, Price 5s.THE STRIKE AT ARLINGFORD.Play in Three Acts.

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VAIN FORTUNE.

With Eleven Illustrations byMaurice Greiffenhagen.

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A VOLUME of ESSAYS by GEORGE MOORE.

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MODERN PAINTING.

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THE STRIKE AT ARLINGFORD.

Play in Three Acts.

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The contents of these little handbooks are so arranged as to permit direct and immediate reference. All dialogues or enquiries not considered absolutely essential have been purposely excluded, nothing being introduced which might confuse the traveller rather than assist him. A few hints are given in the introduction which will be found valuable to those unaccustomed to foreign travel.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTESSilently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.

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