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" The piece of * Julius Caesar/ to complete the action, requires to be continued to the fall of Brutus and Cassius. Caesar is not the hero of the piece, but Brutus. The amiable beauty of his character, his feeling and patriotic heroism, are portrayed with peculiar care. Yet the poet has pointed out...

Preface. The First edition. The Ttvo Gentlemen of Verona first appeared in the Folio of 1623, where it immediately follows The Tempest, and occupies pp. 20-38 ; no evidence exists for an earlier edition. A list of the Dramatis Personae, " The Names of all the Actors," is given at the end of the...

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Henry Fielding (1707-54); born at Sharpham Park, Somerset, seat of his maternal grandfather, Sir Henry Gould, judge of the King's Bench; his own father served under Marlborough, later becoming a general. 1719-c. 1724, at Eton, with the elder Pitt, the elder Fox, Charles Hanbury...

EDITOR'S NOTE"The Last Days of Pompeii,'' Lytton's most famous novel has, with three or four others, fully sustained its fame on to our own day. In it his idea of historical romance, that is, romance interwoven in actual history (as stated in his preface to "Harold") is worked out with great...