The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-18
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The number of volumes issued during
the week ending November 10, 1895, Is
2b74; a daily aveTage OF 429.
Among the additions Of the past week
are Municipal Government in Coptinen-
tai Europe" by Albert Shaw, S076l.1;
ssFrom the Black Sea Through Persia"
by Edwin Lord Weeks, 404. 80; "The
Study of Art in Universities, by q.
WsIdstein, 900. 30; "The Golden Age" by
Kenneth Grahame, 100. 900, and "The
Eliabethan Hamlet" by John Corbin,
1881. 20.
The last named volume has an interest
in connection with Alexander SalviDi's
performance Of Hamlet during this past
week, ana is desc;ibed by the author as
ga study Of the source, and OF Shake
speare's environment, to show that the
mad scenes had q comic aspect now ig-
nored.n Reference may also be made to
Olivet Elton,s note on "Saxo's Hamlet"
at p. 39s-4i3 Of his translation OF saxo
Examinations, BOSS. p; also TO the Count
de Fables article, ''rhe Hamlet Saga"
Nineteenth Century, Dec, 1882, v. IL, p.
gi7-57, O54. "a. IL. In Furness' ''Variorum
Edition. Of Hamlet, v. 2, Belloforest's
"Hystorie Of Hamblet" is reprinted in
part, at p. 91-113; and the German version
t"Fratricide Punished'), at p. 121-42,
l22. ltd; and ''The Spanish Tragedy" OF
Thomas Kyd 10 reprinted in Hazlitt's edi-
tion OF Dodsley's 'old English Plays"
v. b, p. 1-173, 1891. 30.6. See also
John Addington Symond's chapter
on the "sTragedy of Blood" in his
volume, "Shakespeare's Predecessors
II the English Drama" p. 1898,
1927. 20; also John Churton Collins exam
inarion OF Sym9nds at p. 1885 Of his
Fieay's typographical Chronicle OF the
English Drama i559-1642, Nv. 2, p. 26.35,
1927. 49, The "Hystorie OF Hamblet" is
printed in full, at the end Of the volume
published in 1889, entitled ''The True
Story OF Hamlet and Ophelia," by Freder-
icka b. Gilchrist, p. 275-339, 1887. 50. See
also the Nation, ". 49,, p. 27s, $50
volume 90 Playhouse Impressions, " (~selec-
lions from which are quoted in The Provi-
dence Sunday Journal, Nov. 10, 1895. }
The late Richard Grant White also lays
especial emphasis on the marked differ
ence between Shakespeare's own edition
of 1909 and that of 1904, in his article,
'The Two Hamlets, " Atlantic, Oct, 1891,
V. as, p. 467-79, 054. 10. AZ. The 1903 edi-
ton is reprinted in full, by Furness, at
p. 1875, 122. IT, A. See also Goethe's
"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"
Book 8, chapters 4-e, ops. /; also q. q.
Gervinus's "Sbakespeare commentaries"
p. 1852, 1887. 81; also the article
s'Shakespeare in Germany" Blackwood's
teD., 1850, V. 81, Oo4. II. Of Up. zi8-OY. }
Quite varying views OF the "mad scenes"
are. also taken in the following: "On the
feigned madness OF Hamlet" BLACK
woods Oct, 1889. V. s6, p. 499-54, 05i.
II. 46; I he chapter on ''Hamlet," in DIR.
A. o. Kellogg's volume, ''bhakespeare's
delineations of insanity etc, 1850,
1921. AZ; also p. 503-25 OF Dr. Isaac Rays
''Mental pathology" Qs73l, 500. 2; also
the paper on "Hamlet. T" at p. 1882 Of
DIR. Henry Maudsley's "Body and mind"
led 1879, 500. a; also Wilson Barrett's
paper, ~LippiDcott's, IS90). p. 5S0-SS, 054. 19
as. Wilson Barrett, Sir Henry Irving and
Ernesto Rossi, as Hamlet, as portrayed in
William " inter's "Shadows of the Stage"
series 2 and g; 97y7. 13. 2-3; Fechter in
Atlantic, .(iS70), v. rs, p. 55s, 05i. 10.
20; and other "Hamlets of the stage"
in the Atlantic, June and Aug, 1863,
054. 10. 1924. The elder Salvini, (Tom-
fHsse Ss4viHi4,E is Observation-Disclosures
Winter, (''Shadows Of the stage" LIST
SERIES 9757. l3, 1; also by George Henry
Lewes, (''in actors and the art of acting"
2. zz2-22), 9097. 4. b. See also Tommaso
S%alvIni's article. impressions of some
Shakesperian characters, y Century, Nov.
1881, Y. %, p. III, 054. II. %. There is an IL
Illustrated sketch OF the younger Salvini,
(Alexsandro S~avlini), by Mildred AldricS.
in The Arena, JAM, 1893, V. Z, p. l2s-44,
054. ". z.