12 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 29

Mr. Thomas Lowinsky has admirably :depicted the age of elaborate

detail, which The School for Scandal so perfectly represents, in his illustrations to a new edition of this play, printed by the Shakespeare Head Press (13 3s.), published by .Basil Blackwell, Oxford. In his Introduction, Mr. R. Crompton Rhodes emphasizes the ostentatious and decorative mode of the fashion of the time and the supreme importance of dress in this comedy of manners. The Shakespeare Head Press is to be congratulated on an exquisite production, with regard to paper, type and binding.

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