"In _Brand_ the hero is an embodied protest against the poverty of spirit and half-heartedness that Ibsen rebelled against in his countrymen. In _Peer Gynt_ the hero is himself the embodiment of that spirit. In _Brand_ the fundamental antithesis, upon which, as its central theme, the drama is constructed, is the contrast between the spirit of compromise on the one hand, and the motto 'everything or nothing' on the other. And _Peer Gynt_ is the very incarnation of a compromising dread of decisive committal to any one course. In _Brand_ the problem of self-realisation and the relation of the individual to his surroundings is obscurely struggling for recognition, and in _Peer Gynt_ it becomes the formal theme upon which all the fantastic variations of the drama are built up. In both plays alike the problems of heredity and the influence of early surroundings are more than touched upon; and both alike culminate in the doctrine that the only redeeming power on earth or in heaven is the power of love."--Mr. P. H. WICKSTEED. London: WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED, 24 Warwick Lane. _COMPACT AND PRACTICAL._ _In Limp Cloth; for the Pocket. Price One Shilling._ THE EUROPEAN CONVERSATION BOOKS. FRENCH ITALIAN SPANISH GERMAN NORWEGIAN CONTENTS. _Hints to Travellers--Everyday Expressions--Arriving at and Leaving a Railway Station--Custom House Enquiries--In a Train--At a Buffet and Restaurant--At an Hotel--Paying an Hotel Bill--Enquiries in a Town--On Board Ship--Embarking and Disembarking--Excursion by Carriage--Enquiries as to Diligences--Enquiries as to Boats--Engaging Apartments--Washing List and Days of Week--Restaurant Vocabulary--Telegrams and Letters, etc., etc._ The contents of these little handbooks are so arranged as to permit direct and immediate reference. All dialogues or enquiries not considered absolutely essential have been purposely excluded, nothing being introduced which might confuse the traveller rather than assist him. A few hints are given in the introduction which will be found valuable to those unaccustomed to foreign travel. London: WALTER SCOTT, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row. TREASURE-HOUSE OF TALES _Handsome Crown 8vo volumes, bound in Cloth Gilt, 3/6 each._ EACH VOLUME ILLUSTRATED WITH A PORTRAIT ETCHED FOR THIS SERIES BY M. ADOLPHE LALAUZE. LEIGH HUNT. Tales by LEIGH HUNT, hitherto uncollected, with a Biographical Introduction by WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews. With a Portrait of LEIGH HUNT in his young days, etched by AD. LALAUZE, Paris. MRS. SHELLEY.