666 Price Six Shillings, QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. 'Queen Mary' is not only a fine poem but a fine drama. We do not know where to look in post-Shaksperian English poetry for a poem in which the true fire of drama so burns as in Mr. Tennyson's Queen Mary.'"-Times. We hardly know where in recent literature to look for a picture so consistent, so truthful, and so touching. Mr. Tennyson has added to literature what Emerson would call one new organic form,' and that in itself would be praise enough to uphold a fame."-Daily News. "On the who'e we think we may say that this is a play which will compare, with something more than advantage, with Shakspere's 'Henry VIII.' Certainly we should be surprised to hear that any true critic would rate 'Queen Mary,' whether in dramatic force or in general power, below Henry VIII.,' and our own impression is that it is a decidedly finer work of dramatic art."-Spectator. "He has developed characters of great subtlety with masterly touches, has rendered the historical spirit and tone of the time."Academy. "As a drama Queen Mary' has great, perhaps unexpected merits. It gives evidence of a careful study of the one model which literature possesses of the highest dramatic art. The personages in the play act and speak not only to one another but to the audience. The situations beget each other in a natural sequence with as much truth to history as we can expect in a dramatic composition. The dialogue is animated and life-like, in spite of some crudities and modernisms of phrase, and it is evident that great pains involving much self-restraint on the part of the poet have been taken to mould the play in the true shape of what a drama should be, that is of something to be acted."-Standard. HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON. |