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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A definitive biography.'-PALL MALL GAZETTE,

CHEAPER EDITION. Large crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

With Two Portraits of Shakespeare, a Portrait of the Earl of Southampton, and Facsimiles of Shakespeare's known Signatures.

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EDITOR OF THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.'

LITERATURE, —Mr. Lee's work, both for its literary qualities and its scholarship, does credit to English letters, and it will probably be regarded for years to come as the most useful, the most judicious, and the most authoritative of all existing biographies of the poet,'

SPECTATOR.—' Unquestionably one of the most remarkable achievements of modern English scholarship. . . . The mass of obscure and tangled controversies which he has ravelled out is immense.'

TIMES. A marvel of research, and, on the whole, remarkably temperate, judicious, and convincing. Never before has learning

been brought to bear upon Shakespeare's like the same force.'

Also, with an Explanatory Note.

biography with anything

Crown 8vo. 6d.

SHAKESPEARE'S HANDWRITING.

Facsimiles of the Five Authentic Autograph Signatures of the Poet. Extracted from SIDNEY LEE'S Life of William Shakespeare.'

London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.

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