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"The fame of the actor more than that of any other artist is an evanescent one-a 'bubble reputation' indeed, and necessarily so from the conditions under which his genius is exercised. While the impression it makes is often more vivid and inspiring for the moment than that of the poet and the painter, it vanishes almost with the occasion which gave it birth, and lives only as a tradition in the memory of those to whom it had immediately appealed. 'Shadows they are, and shadows they pursue.'

"The writer, therefore, who, gifted with insight and a poetic enthusiasm which enables him to discern on the one hand the beauties in a dramatic work not perceived by the many, and on the other the qualities in the actor which have made him a true interpreter of the poet's thought, at the same time possessing the faculty of revealing to us felicitously the one and the other, is certainly entitled to our grateful recognition.

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Such a writer is Mr. William Winter, easily the first, for we know of none other living in this country, or in the England he loves so much, in whose nature the critic's vision is united with that of the poet so harmoniously..

"Over and above all this, there is in these writings the same charm of style, poetic glamour and flavor of personality which distinguish whatever comes to us from Mr. Winter's pen, and which make them unique in our literature." -Home Journal, New York.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY,

66 FIFTH AVENUE,

NEW YORK.

18MO, CLOTH, 75 CENTS.

CONTENTS.

SHRINES OF HISTORY.

I. Storied Southampton.
II. Pageantry and Relics.
III. The Shakespeare Church.
IV. A Stratford Chronicle.
V. From London to Dover.
VI. Beauties of France.
VII. Ely and its Cathedral.
VIII. From Edinburgh to Inverness.
IX. The Field of Culloden.

X. Stormbound Iona.

SHRINES OF LITERATURE.

XI, The Forest of Arden: As You Like It.
XII. Fairy Land: A Midsummer Night's Dream
XIII. Will o' the Wisp: Love's Labour Lost.
XIV. Shakespeare's Shrew.

XV. A Mad World: Antony and Cleopatra.
XVI. Sheridan, and the School for Scandal.
XVII. Farquhar, and the Inconstant.
XVIII. Longfellow.

XIX. A Thought on Cooper's Novels.

XX. A Man of Letters: John R. G. Hassard.
"Whatever William Winter writes is marked by felic-
ity of diction and by refinement of style, as well as by
the evidence of culture and wide reading. Old Shrines
and Ivy' is an excellent example of the charm of his
work." - Boston Courier.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY,

66 FIFTH AVENUE,

NEW YORK

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