A volume of .Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan
has been chosen by Professor Frederick Tupper and ProfessorJamesW.Tupper (HumphreyMilford for the American Branch of the Oxford University Press, Se. net). To select a dozen plays to represent this period is not an easy task, and we are not inclined to quarrel seriously with the present choice. It seems hardly necessary, however, to include two by Sheridan among the representative twelve, while Wycherley and Van- brugh are altogether omitted. On the other hand, it is refreshing to find The Beggar's Opera and Tom Thumb, neither of which has been often reprinted.—We may mention with this a reprint of an English play of a very much earlier date. This is the farce called Jacks Jugeler, which has been edited by Mr. W. H. Williams (Cambridge University Press, de. 6d. net), and is believed by him to be an early work of Nicholas Udall, the author of Ralph Roister Dallier.
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