‘A critical biography of the one supreme poet of humanity; written with skill, discrimination, and taste.... Mr. Wise notices in a reverent spirit, and in soberly elegant language, the intellectual talents, the imperial diction and gorgeous colouring, the knowledge, the wisdom, imagination, and many-sidedness of this wonderful artist; but he lays even more stress on Shakspere’s moral characteristics, and on the effectual qualities of his nature, than on these more brilliant and obvious endowments; on his genial humour, his universal sympathy and tolerance, his serene hilarity, his robust simple-hearted patriotism, and his love of freedom—freedom of speculation, freedom of discussion. The essential goodness of our great poet is the main argument of Mr. Wise’s discourse.’ (The Daily News.) ‘We find the book as good as it is pretty, and therefore twice worthy commendation. We have to thank Mr. Wise for a glossary which not only explains the provincialisms of Shakspere, but, _è converso_, gives a Shaksperian colour to phrases in use among the Warwickshire peasantry to this day. So delightfully readable a glossary as this we have seldom encountered.’ (The Morning Herald.) ‘Mr. Wise has treated an old and well-worn subject with singular good sense and taste.... The chapter on Shakspere himself is a sound and masterly examination of the nature and spirit of his genius, as revealed in his works. Mr. Wise has a voice of his own in the matter, and it is well worth listening to.’ A Cheaper Edition, fcp 8vo. in cloth limp, may be had, price 2s. 6d. MR. RUSKIN’S WORKS. MODERN PAINTERS. Complete in Five Volumes, imperial 8vo. With Eighty-seven Engravings on Steel, and Two Hundred and Sixteen on Wood, chiefly from Drawings by the Author. With Index to the whole Work. £8 6s. 6d. _Each Volume may be had separately._ Vol. I. Of General Principles and of Truth. Sixth Edition. 18s. Vol. II. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. Fourth Edition. 10s. 6d. Vol. III. Of Many Things. With Eighteen Illustrations drawn by the Author, and engraved on Steel. 38s. Vol. IV. On Mountain Beauty. With Thirty-five Illustrations engraved on Steel, and One Hundred and Sixteen Woodcuts, drawn by the Author. £2 10s. Vol. V. Of Leaf Beauty; Of Cloud Beauty; Of Ideas of Relation. With Thirty-four Engravings on Steel, and One Hundred on Wood. With Index to the Five Volumes. £2 10s. THE STONES OF VENICE. Complete in Three Volumes, imperial 8vo. With Fifty-three Plates and numerous Woodcuts, drawn by the Author. £5 15s. 6d. _Each Volume may be had separately._ Vol. I. The Foundations. With Twenty-one Plates. 42s. Vol. II. The Sea Stories. With Twenty Plates. 42s. Vol. III. The Fall. With Twelve Plates. 31s. 6d.