Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-01-24

WAS the feeling OF bis myrisds OF readers
many mon of many minds Shakespeare
eminent to represent things as they
are, no matter II such treatment
should now and then CRATE upon the sensi-
bllitiea. The result has been to make
his writings all the more valuable to
and worthy Of study for all poeterity.
Mr.. Dyer classi6es Shxteepesre's references
to folklore under the heads--fairies, witches,
ghosts, demonology, natural phenomena,
birds, animals, plants, insects and reptiles,
olk-metcine, customs connected with the
calendar, birth and baptism, marriage, death
and burial, rings and precious stones, sports
aud pastimes, dances, punishments, proverbs,
the human body, fishes, sundry superstitions,
miscellaneous customs, DC. glance or two
at the index OF ten pages at the end of the
book, Will of itself give q good idea of
Shakespeares versatility and at the same
time OF the great amount of work required
on the part of the compiler, who has quoted
from or referred largely TO many authors
from the Sixteenth century to the present
time, In order to help give more satisfac
tory explanation of some obscure passages,
or Passages the correct meanings Of which
are matters Of discussion. The student of
Shakespeare who wishes to investigate more
fully the points treated, will hnd many val
liable foot notes TO AID him. MIR. Dyer has
joined his extracts together and introduced
LIE III nuCu way 10
make the whole very readable and most vslu-
able for reference, and is TO be thanked for
this new addition to Shakes epeariana.
Messrs. Harper q Brothers have published
in one volume what has been given to the
English public in two volumes, 1.-The Life
Letters and Literary Remains Of Edward
Bulwer, Lord Lytton, by his Son, the present
Lord Lytton, better known as Owen
Meredith. The volume encloses 664 pages OF
which the first 6S contain an account Of the
pedigree OF Lord Lytton aud the description
OF the family estate at Knebworth given with
considerable detail The next GA pages bring
US to his first published work-when he was
II years of age called 'Ismsel an Oriental
Tale, and other poems by Edward George
Lytton Bnlwer, written between the ages of lS
and l5." The dedication Of this book to
The British Public, reminds one OF ,.ion'd
scarce expect one OF my age" DC,
see page 1888. When II years OLD
he falls in love with young girl
whom he usee to see plating straw, as he
passed her home but he never spoke to her,
though he thought from her glsnces that
she returned his love. This lasted one whole
summer. At q his name was connected in
Lamb. At % he published another volume
entitled Weeds and Wild Flowers" part in
prose and part in verse. or this the present
Lord Lytton says specimens OF mind in
which thought and reflection were matured
earlier than the mechanical faculties OF e1
preston" Soon after this be met his
future wife, Miss Wheeler whose
exceeding beauty fascinated him, and,
as his son says, '.ahose WORSE
| than orphan condition appealed to that
| compassionate sentiment by which, at all
| times, his heart was soonest touched and his
| judgment most easily mlsed.' Falkland"
| was his next published work. To quote
| again, Oakland is not novel, was not
| meant to be novel and ought not to be
| judged as a novel 1t ID what IN those days
| would be called study OF sentiment" At
| "a he was married much against the will of
| his mother, whom he tried long to reconcile to
| her daughter iu-law. His literary work
| now seems to have been unremitting, even TO
the composition OF two novels simultaneously
| notably "Lucretia" and 1.-The Caxtons +
"Kenelm Chillingly' aud THE Parisians."
Later in life he writes of himself Il have
an intense belief IN the generatlve virtue oi
| labor and look upon genius as concentra-
ton Of thought npon one point at time
His estrsngement from his mother caused
him the keenest suffering, as shown in hii
letters OF about this time. 1t seems to have
lasted till the publication of The Disowned'
which softened her feelings and made
reconciliation possible
In 1881 he was elected to parliament fo
st, Ives, after trying to get his mother
consent to stand for st. Albans and failing
enty-four excellent illustrations are scat
tered through the book, some miniatures aut
some landscapes and interiors The Pal. MAJ
Gozepe ssys We doubt IL miniatures
especially, were ever more successfully ren
4 dered.
One Of the most interesting interiors is th
queen Elizabeth room at Knebworth
Beeide these are fac similes OF written page
Of +" Pelham, " Disowned," " Devereux,
and Paul Clifford
The remaining volumes will be looked 10
with much interest and pleasant anticipation
In the preface the compiler says 9Th
main purpose, therefore, Of this book is t
illustrate my fathers works by his life an
Als life by his works. at il written i'll til
CONVICTION that my fathers life ard cha
acter present exceptional features OF peculli
interest 10 those who have already been ii
terested by his works OF for whom the stud
OF human nature has attraction"
For it Is the story Of life in which a
the errors we're the errors Of agood man, an
! the picture Of a character in which all Il
, virtues were those Of great one"