Under the editorial_supervision of LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A. B., Associate Professor of English, in Brown University. ADDISON-The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. 30C. HERBERT VAUGHAN ABBOTT, A. M., Columbia University. *BURKE-Speech on Conciliation with America, 25c. ALBERT E. HANCOCK, Ph. D., Haverford College. GEORGE B. AITON, State Inspector of H. S.. Minn. COOPER-Last of the Mohicans, EDWIN H. LEWIS, Ph. D., Lewis Institute, Chicago. †COLERIDGE-The Ancient Mariner, †LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal, WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., University of Chicago. DE QUINCEY-The Flight of a Tartar Tribe, CHARLES W. FRENCH, A. M., Hyde Park High School. DRYDEN-Palamon and Arcite, MAY ESTELLE COOK, A. B., Chicago. +GEORGE ELIOT-Silas Marner, †GOLDSMITH-The Vicar of Wakefield, JOSEPH VILLIERS DENNEY, B. A., Ohio State University. CARLYLE-Essay on Burns, 25c. One Vol., 25c. 25c. 25c. 30c. 30c. EDWARD P. MORTON, A. M., The Indiana University. HAWTHORNE-The House of the Seven Gables, 35c. ROBERT HERRICK, A. B., The University of Chicago. IRVING-Tales of a Traveller and parts of The Sketch Book, 40c. GEORGE P. KRAPP, Teachers' College, New York. LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal. See Coleridge. *MACAULAY-Essays on Milton and Addison, ALPHONSO G. NEWCOMER, A. M., Leland Stanford Junior MACAULAY-Essays on Addison and Johnson, *MILTON-L'Allegro, II Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas, W. A. NEILSON, Ph. D., Harvard University. MILTON-Paradise Lost, Books I and II, FRANK E. FARLEY, Ph. D., Syracuse University, POE-Poems and Tales, Selected, ALPHONSO G. Newcomer, A. M. POPE-Homer's Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV, WILFRED W. CRESSY, A. M., and WILLIAM VAUGHN SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel, MARY R. WILLARD, High School, Jamestown, N. Y. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., and MARY R. WILLARD, †SCOTT-Ivanhoe, 45C. 25C W. A. NEILSON, Ph. D., Harvard University. 25c. WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, Ph. D., Knox College. SHAKSPERE-As You Like It, *SHAKSPERE-Macbeth, JOHN HENRY BOYNTON, Ph. D., Syracuse University. †SHAKSPERE-Merchant of Venice, 25c. ROBERT MORSS LOVETT, The University of Chicago. 25c. †SHAKSPERE-Julius Caesar, W. A. NEILSON, Ph. D., Harvard University. †TENNYSON-The Princess, 25c. CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND, A. B., Harvard College. *For Study and Practice. Į College Entrance Requirements in †For Reading. English, 1903. SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY Publishers, 378-388 WABASH AVENUE.....CHICAGO The Lake English Classics EDITED BY LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A.B. Associate Professor of English in Brown University PREFACE. The aim in the volumes of this series is to present a satisfactory text of each play, modernized in spelling and punctuation, with as full an equipment of explanation and comment as is necessary for thorough intelligibility. The first section of the introduction is intended to give the student an idea of the place of the play in the history of the English Drama in general and of Shakspere's development in particular. In the present volume a considerable amount of space in the second section has been devoted to the source of the play and to Shakspere's adaptation of it to his dramatic purposes. The mere statement of the name of the book from which the plot is drawn is of little significance unless the student is enabled to form some conception of the omissions, additions, and modifications to which the earlier work was subjected by the dramatist. An attempt has therefore been made to give a concise summary of those features in Lodge's novel of Rosalynde a comparison of which with the corresponding parts of As You Like It helps to throw light on Shakspere's aim and methods. The task of aesthetic interpretation has been for the most part left to the teacher, and the significance of the changes just |