The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-14
The yar;nrurn and Definite Edition OF the
Ioe.t,c-I I'D Drnse MritihYS o EaWHrO

The yar;orurn and Definite Edition OF the
port;c,I and prose Mritiags Esward
Fifty rad. Including Complete 81
biography and interesting Personal
and Literary Notes the whoie COL
Iocted and arranged by George Ben
than with preface by Edmund
t;osse Doubleday. Page and Com
ranv New York. Seven vols. by
SUBSCRIPTION Sc. $3.50. and $500 per
volume,
Tho extent TO which fine book-nanri.g
ran go IS illustrated in these seven
volumes of the complete writings c. Ed
ward FITZGERALD which Doubleday. Page
and Company are publishing. They a-n
so superbly excellent in every deta!l that
there IS very little else TO be SAID about
them The advance specimen work
which wa have seen shows what Inc
books will be.
They will prove the sort of thing that
must be seen to be appreciated. The
neVinne Press will turn tEsm out. Only
$50 sets will be printed. and OF these 800
sets will be offered 10 the pubic. 1T is
expected that the first volume Will be
ready for delivery before the end or the
year.
To most people Edward Fitzgerald Is
known only as the translator OF the
Rubaiyat OF Omar Khayyam. poem TO
but there are at least five other of his
important contributions 10 literature
that have been awarded high rank by
such critics q $ Archbishop Trench, swim
burne Tennyson, ct al. Referring 70
the Calderon Dramas. Colonel W.. +.
Frideaux writes, TT is simply astonlSh-
Ing that the Goinpilers OF anthclosles
have not caurIied in this mine mere
Is some reason for this unfaniliarity.
N mn
Kerlble. 'ihe most modest Of men, one
who as persistentlv avoided fame rs
others seek it, and most of his writ
tnrs very few copies We're printed or
circulated as he did not count on sales
being made we know from the state
ment of Messrs. Billings and Sons, OF
Guildford the printers. that only MY
copies Of the last edition of EuphraIoF
were struck off. and that only the same
number OF The Downfall ana j)ea1h OF
King Oedipus" were printed. The ex-
PLANTATION of the existence OF the differ
ont editions is found in the fact that Ii
was Fitzgerald himself who calied FOL
fhem-Fltzgerald the dissedshed arhstt
never content always seeking something
nearer perfection. He was continually
changing what he had written, ana WIN
him no form was ever final. some OF me
editions fer so radically as practically
TO amount TO rewriting, ana IL Is loi
this reason that a variorum edition OF
his works becomes of vital Importance
10 one who would really know fitzser-
aid The editor of American Book
Prices Current doubts If the material
to make up more than five complete sets
Of Fitzgerald's works could he located
The contents Of the respective volumes
uf the edition has been arranged as FOL
lows: Vol I-Bubaiyat of Omar hhaS-
ysm. Quaritch, 1859; Solomon and Absol'
and Euphranor Vol. 1.-THE Rubaiyat'
ouari,ch. 1865; Solomon and Ahsal; Eunh-
ranor; and 4Agamemnon. Vol. lll.-Ihe
Ruhaiyat ouaritch, 1872; the same, lo7a;
the same, Wright edition, Macmillan
Iss7; The Solomon and Ahsal OF JAM;
E1iphranor; and Agamemnon- Vol ~.
six DRAINS of Calderon. Vol. vine
Mighty Magician; such stuff as Dreams
are Made Of; and Polonius. Vol. VI
pea Words and Phrases Along the SUI
folk Coast: A Birds Eye View OF l'all'
duddin Affairs Bird Parliament; and re
Downfall and Death Of King oedslus.
VOL yII.-MisceIlany, including the IMo
Generals. Bredfeld Hall, translation
from Petrarch the Meadows in SpilnE.
Chronomoros. Introduction to Re7alaSs
In Crazze. Obituary Sketch of the ReV
George Craze. Memoir or Bernard 9a1-
ton. Percival Stockdale and Baddnek
HIac,t Horse etc.