THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF GEORGE CHAPMAN.
The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Comedies. Edited by T. M. Parrott. (G. Routledge and Sons. 6s.)—. More than forty years have elapsed since we had a complete Chapman, and we welcome the Princeton Professor's admirable edition of this "lofty and labouring spirit." Chapman is best known to the modern English reader, we fear, through Keats's fine sonnet on his Homer, and through the discussions of Shakespearean critics as to whether Chapman was the "rival poet" of the Sonnets. But we hope that Professor Parrott's commendable labours will give the plays a new lease of popularity. This is the second volume of his edition: the first, containing the tragedies, was published in 1910. The third volume, with the poems and minor translations, will soon appear. We regret to infer that the Homer is not to be included, and hope that Professor Parrott will see his way to make this standard edition a complete one. The editorial work is excellently done the text is quite the best yet printed, and the notes provide all the assistance that a modern reader of these Elizabethan comedies should require.
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