¢ ༦ EXTRACTS FROM SOME PRESS NOTICES OF QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Uniform with "HAROLD." Price Six Shillings. 'Queen Mary' is not only a fine poem, but a fine drama, and that, though each of the several powers which go to make it so has already been proved by the Author, the masterly harmony in which they work together here entitles 'Queen Mary' to be considered something more than merely a success in a new kind."--Times. "On the whole we think we may say that this is a play which will compare with something more than advantage with Shakspeare'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. The morbid passions of Mary, the brief intervals of her lucid and energetic action, the gloom of her physical decay, and the despair of her moral desolation, together make up a picture which it would be impossible for any one who can enter into it, ever to forget."-Spectator. "Queen Mary' is full of various interest and insight; it shows powers unguessed at, and as yet scarcely to be appreciated."—Academy. "The closing scenes of Mary's life are the finest in the poem. The miserable condition of the woman torn with love and bereavement, with dread for her State, and disappointment political and personal, crushed in the very dust of moral and physical depression, and yet not altogether unqueenly, not altogether unworthy of a certain sympathy-this makes up a picture which will long live in the mind."--Daily News. ** A complete List of Mr. Tennyson's Works, and of the various editions in which they are published, is given at the end of the book. HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON. To his Excellency THE RIGHT HON. LORD LYTTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. MY DEAR LORD LYTTON, After old-world records-such as the Bayeux tapestry and the Roman de Rou,-Edward Freeman's History of the Norman Conquest, and your father's Historical Romance treating of the same times, have been mainly helpful to me in writing this Drama. Your father dedicated his 'Harold' to my father's brother; allow me to dedicate my 'Harold' to yourself. A. TENNYSON. |
