Beljame's _Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre_ bears on this as on the preceding chapter. Voltaire's influence on English tragedy has never been fully studied, but the following recent books bear on his relations with England: A. Ballantyne's _Voltaire's Visit to England_ (1893); J. Churton Collins's _Bolingbroke, a historical study, and Voltaire in England_ (1886); Lounsbury's _Shakespeare and Voltaire_ (1902), which gives much information on the drama and criticism of the period and sufficient directory to Voltaire's comment on the English drama; and Jusserand's _Shakespeare en France_, which is also very valuable for this period. Miss Canfield's study of _Corneille and Racine in England_ is also of marked service; and L. Morel's _James Thomson_ (Paris, 1895) gives a very full study of Thomson's plays and literary relations. The _Belles-Lettres Series_ contains editions with introductions of plays of Rowe, ed. Miss Sophie Hart; and of Lillo, ed. A. W. Ward (1906). Dr. Ward's introduction is particularly valuable for its sketch of the course of domestic tragedy and sentimental comedy on the continent. From the notes in these various studies, and from _La Littérature comparée, essai bibliographique_, by Louis P. Betz, Strasbourg, 1904, direction can be had to a number of monographs dealing with special phases of the relations between the dramas of England and France, and, toward the end of the century, between England and Germany. FOOTNOTES: [28] For comparisons of the two plays, see Sir Walter Scott's "Essay on the Drama," Cumberland's _Observer_, Nos. 77, 78, 79; and Gifford's introduction to his edition of Massinger. [29] See _Corneille and Racine in England_. Dorothea Canfield. New York, 1904. [30] Its only appearance on the stage recorded by Genest was in Capell's adaptation, acted six times by Garrick in 1759. [31] _Brutus_ (1734), _Zara_ (1736), _Alzira_ (1736), _Mahomet_ (1744), _Merope_ (1749), _Orphan of China_ (1759), _Orestes_ (1769), _Almida_ (1771) (from _Tancrède_), _Semiramis_ (1776). See, also, Hoole's _Cyrus_ (1768), Cradock's _Zobeide_ (1771), Murphy's _Alzuma_ (1773), and Brooke's _Imposter_ (1778), not acted. [32] Professor Lounsbury seems mistaken in finding a "sudden cessation of interest in Voltaire" after 1750. _Shakespere and Voltaire_, pp. 304, 305. He neglects the later popularity of _The Orphan of China_ and the continued popularity of plays earlier translated.