The North British Review (Volume 25)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... THE NORTH BRITISH o? Tjih 'r MAY, UNIVERSITY Art. I.--1. Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. London, 1679. 2. Works of Ben Jonson. London, 1692. 3. Massinger's Plays. Edited by William Gifford, Esq. London, 1813. 4. Works of John Webster. Edited, &c, by Rev. Alexander Dyce. Pickering, London, 1830. 5. Works of James Shirley. Edited by Rev. A. Dyce. Murray, 1833. 6. Works of T. Middleton. Edited by Rev. A. Dyce. Lumley, 1840. 7. Comedies, c. By Mr. William Cartwright. London, 1651. 8. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets. By Charles Lamb. Longmans & Co. 1808. 9. Histriomastix. By W. Prynne, Utter-Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, London, 1633. 10. Northbrooke's Treatise against Plays, S.c. (Shakspeare Soc.) 1843. 11. The Works of Bishop Hall. Oxford, 1839. 12. Marstoris Satires. London, 1600. 13. Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Profaneness, fyc, of the English Stage. London, 1730. 14. Iangbaine's English Dramatists. Oxford, 1691. 15. Companion to the Playhouse. London, 1764. 16. Riccoboni's Account of the Theatres in Europe. 1741. The British isles have been ringing, for the last few years, with the word Art, in its German sense, with High Art, Symbolic Art, Ecclesiastical Art, Dramatic Art, Tragic Art, and so forth; and every well-educated person is expected, VOl. XXV. NO. XLIX. A now-a-days, to know something about Art. Meanwhile, in spite of all translations of German -(Esthetic treatises, and Kunstnovellen, the mass of the British people cares very little about the matter, and sits contented under the imputation of bad taste. Our stage, long since dead, does not revive; our poetry is dying; our music, like our architecture, only reproduces the past; our painting is only good when it handles landscapes and animals, and will so remain un...