The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-09-19
a NEW ERA.OF
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Tie TisgssGy of Hamlet is now in prss'. The FIRST
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PROSPECTUS.
Ths Pictorial and illustrated editions Of SHAKES
PERE, lately published in England are amongst the
mOst beautiful specimens Of the recent remarkable i'm
PEOyeGsnt Of the art Of wOod engraving, which by
combining great excellence of execution with economy
of price, Riveh unprecedsd diffusion TO the most
exquisite productions Of the arts Of Design.
The designs oil Kenny Meadows for the illustrations
ofCyas edition Of Shakepeare express The character OF
the several pcrsonages, and the spirit Of ihe scene,
with wonderful truth and power; whilst The wood en-
Craving Of knights Pictorial edition combine with the
highest merits CT md taste such farned and minute
accuracy to scenery costume, architecture TO make
LSt perpetual aud most instructive commentary upon
the Poets text II is row proposed To ernbody in an
American edition, the admirable Illustrations Of both
these eiitioas engraved with equal excellence Of me-
chanical execution TO add 10 these other e1graVings
RavnOIdS Is. Newton
&C., and TO accompany them with beauuIy printed
and correct text.
Bu, tbs publisher, Snxous that his country shonll
Pay SONS pa 6fi'le homage due (rcm her 10 greatest Of
Pveis as 10 one who belongs not soley To England,
but 10 all ....
WI speak The tongue
That Shakespeare spake,
eopa nd, content himself with a mers republication ar
compilation. lie has therefore prevailed upon X. u
Wsir, whose reputation as an Artist is already identified
with hs country history, 10 cohrlbuie seres Of orig
iual designs together with such advice and assistance
IN other details Of at Is his taste may suggest 70! the IL
Ius,ra,ion and embellishment of the publication. -
From the same reason the publisher Instead otrePrn'
,inT the lsxt and commentary Of popular English
;norps.on was desiroGs That his edition should have
the supervision Of an American editor. This tPak has
becn undertaken bo GULIAN c. VERPLANKK.
The plan proposed himself y the editor to furnish the
reader with carefully prepared and accurately printed text
uuincumeed by notes or comments upon the page Se
howeve useful they may he elsewhere they are loo apt TO
divert the mind from the power of tile poets thought and 10
ts the magic Of his Such notes may be thought
useful explanation 0 criticism to the text VIII DC thrown
into an nppendix 10 each play
The text of Shakspeares dramatic works drawn from old
psd copies IN his age which had never passed under te
authors own eve as ccnssdnty disfgucd by errors and
oSs,uies IL passed during tic last century through sue
ceson of varying editions until the revision OF Stevens ana
Maoun whose rather that Of Sevens has become Tue
standard from which most Of the English and American cd'
within the last twenty years more minute and lanar ac
6uanance with old English idioms habits and NOTES OF lo
guided by intense aud constantly increasing admauo o'
es genius has led strong conviction that very
many of the numerous though slight devaons from tile an
eeni text appearing in modern editions are useless or erohe
s ineruuatUIs soneties Weakening tile sense and ofcn
,abiiuug an arbitrary Bohotcacrs etrica regularity 70
the poets Matte melody Accordingly very many oil
ihtn ehenaohs have rejected by the last aud bes Eng
lsh editors especially MIR. Knight and Mr Collier aud tile
readings cid oos and quaros have been restored u
less where some error press manuscript wigs undea
M anfea Ye. there many such passages oOnicssedy
aud requiring coujecura emendaton there are also
dfeece. of reading between the several old Impressions a
fording grounds for some diversity Oh text aha wam coho
versy bet Seeh the itfore recent editors
ituon tbese the American editor tnkst due 10 the carac
ter OF this edition. decide for himself wRSal spchy io
lowing the text of any modern ettIon AS Tie INDUSTRY
and tatnng Of ttio editors have furnished the COLLATION. OF
rona reodinpa and authorities upon which they may be
spporcd the task longer la Of aborious investigation
but as 1t we Of judicial decision enlightened by coh'ehahs
arsuments. ,, ,,,
A. MANY of these variations Of nearly equal probability
an, of them are doubtless the authors own alterations
a, different periods all the important readings VIII be
ssen,ed TO tile reader IN the notes for his own scection
sNe nors will also contain so much of commentary may
he useful 10 explain anquated words and phrases oscurey
expressed passages and illusions to osoue opinions or Tile
habits Of history tmes the whole in as condensed form
MS practicable. Bu, any comment upon shaAspafe however
brief would be imperfect did not present eoe view Of the
her criticism employed, the Interpretation of his Ian
ymge But uncu ;s tcugS his character, his poetry pas
sionI philosophy The only difference hee arises fro e
hnnancc. ,he magnificent variety Of Tie materials cohibu
Icd during tie Ias af century by the Most brilliant minds III
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