THE

• SHAKSPEARIAN READER:

A COLLECTION OF.

THE MOST APPROVED PLAYS

OF

SHAKSPEARE;

CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH

INTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

AND

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE USE OF CLASSES, AND THE
FAMILY READING CIRCLE.

BY

JOHN W. S. HOWS,

PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

THE MAN, whom NATURE's self had made

To mock herself, and TRUTH to imitate.

Spenser.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & CO., 443 & 445 BROADWAY.

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186件

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. TO

THE HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN,

THIS ATTEMPT TO RENDER

SHAKSPEARE

AN UNEXCEPTIONABLE CLASS BOOK,

AND AN ACCEPTABLE FAMILY READER

IS

Respectfully Dedicated,

AS

TESTIMONIAL OF GRATEFUL ESTEEM,

BY

JOHN W. S. HOWS.

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