New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE Us sA AND cKE s With an ntrodgciiSp By
Appleton Morgan. 12mo. PIP. 2Ss. Inc SheNS
speare Society of New-York.
The fourth volume Of the Bankside Shakespeare
contains the play of Troilus and Cressida' ghe
PLAYERS text of 1909 being printed IN par"Ne.
columns with the Heminges and Condeh 'eAo OIL
1923. The introduction, by Mr.. Appleton nior,
can. touches the question whether the pay neiu
tbe stage in Shakespeare's time, or was prlhteo
With his concurrence. Mr.. Morgan reaches inc
conclusion that the play was laliure WHICH !"
uae frst nroduced. and that probably Shakespeare
laid Il aside and troubled himself little ABOUT IL
.ha,eafter The evidence upon which TINS theory
res,s appears to us none OF the strongest IN iact
we are inclined to regard the view as more IMAM
little fancful The introduction, nevertneieSs' Is
interesting, for it is the vehicle OF an ehergeoic
and weIlreasoned assault upon the baeohlahS'
whom Mr.. Morgan attacks in vital point Dy
sn,lvzino their argument drawn from the exist
cnce of paralelisms' between Shakespeare ana
Raeon It is true he is not the first to point 1t
ouf but it cannot be pointed out too often, so
,ong as such heresies survive. that these alleged
parallelisms are really only evidence OF the con.
temporaneousness of the writers. Shakespeare
and Bacon lived at the same time, spoke the same
language. breathed the same literary atmosphere,
heard. received and used the same general ideas,
and. in short were influenced by their environ
ment as everybody is always and everywhere.
Mr. Donnelly has exposed the folly Of the par
aIIelisms argument more fully than any OF his
school in claiming for Bacon not only the author
shin OF Shakespeare's plays but that of the works
of most of the other Ehzabethan and Jacooean
nlsvwrirhts. of Montaigne, Burton, and in fact all
the writers of note belonging to the period. 1t Is
clear that. as Mr.. Morgan puts 1t, What the
Baeoniaps are pleased to call Bacon Is simply the
classical English prose of Bacon's date. when
they find this prose in Marlowe, Shakespeare Bur
ton. Massinget, Webster, etc, they cry, Behold
Baconl But they might equally cry: Behold
classical English I'.-the only English that has
survived from those sporadic days. This Is
truth which should be obvious, but the Baconlans
have never been capable Of approaching obvious
truths, or they would not be Baconians MI
Morgan does not convince us that Iroilus and
Cressida. was a stage failure but we thank him
nevertheless for his lively introduction to the
play--which is printed with the care we have
learned to look for in this valuable edition of
Shakespeare.
MY COUSIN, MISS. CINDERELLA. BY Leon de
Tnseau. Translated by E. w. Mayor. 1omo,
PIP. 179. d. Appleton & Co
AUNT sALLYS BOY JACK. BY n. J. w. LeCato.
12mo, PIP. 20. Bolford, Clarke g. Co.
M. Leon de Ttnseau writes charmingly, and Mr.
Naylor has faithfully translated his pretty dyc story
of Ma Cousine otau-Feu"-which is somewhat too
freely rendered "My Cousin Cinderella 1t is an
episode Of life in a venerable French chateau, In
habited by family of old mobiles who maintain the
ways and domestic customs of the "anclen regime'
The whole narrative constitutes only short story
but IL Is admirably old and full Of power and tender
sentiment
aAunt sallys Boy Ja0kS takes the reader to the new
South and requires him to believe that reconstruction
has after all not struck very deep The interest
centres in a lad who, being thought to have negro
blood In his VEINS is ~kept down" by all the older
white people of the neighborhOtd but who IN the end
proves to be whits and is Of course thereupon &C
cepted by those who have snubbed him all his lfe
1t Is rather crowded with incIdentsa mistake in so
short tale-but 1t is spritodly written, and with
sympsthy