29 APRIL 1893, Page 10

The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. By J. W.

Cun- liffe, D.Lit. (Macmillan.)—This is the reprint of an essay written as a credential for the Doctor of Literature degree in the Univer- sity of London, and is a distinction both to the author and to the body which appreciated it. Dr. Cunliffe speaks of the tragedies attributed, and, it would seem, rightly attributed, to Seneca, and

he makes out his thesis by a very abundant and very curious proof. Seneca was, in fact, the chief model by which Marlowe, Green, and others had to work, and they made frequent use of it.