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Character. of Shakespeare's Plays. By William Hazlitt. (H. Milford. ls.

net.)—Hazlitt's engaging essays on Shakespeare have been included in the " World's Classics " just a century after their first appearance. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch contributes an appre- ciative introduction, commending Hazlitt for his recognition of Shakespeare's supremacy and for his interest in Shakespeare " as a dramatist and not as a philosopher, or a propagandist., or a lawyer's clerk, or a disappointed lover."