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Complete editions of most standard authors are sold on the basis of "extensive notes," or "sumptuous binding," or "frequent illustrations." The selling point for the new Houghton-Mifflin Riverside Shakespeare is the text itself, the most honest one now available. Few editions of Shakespeare give the reader much sense of where the words he reads come from. Some of them, of course, come from Shakespeare; but many are the additions of collaborators, the mistakes of printers and scribes, the faulty recollection of actors, the alterations of bowdlerizers and the guesswork of editors. The Riverside text, prepared by Gwynne B. Evans...
...orals--it is probably unnecessary to bring Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes twice into a brief discussion of Cymbeline. I suspect this approach is not the fault of the authors; the essays follow a general pattern closely enough to indicate that the publisher had unity of method in mind. Houghton-Mifflin chose to take the safe, easy approach; and the essays will save many freshmen from silly mistakes. If they do not make the reader stop and wonder, and make that wonder deepen, at least they are free of error and extravagance and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses...
None of these complaints diminishes the success the Riverside has scored. The essays do not constitute a major blot on the book, just a failure to reach the level of the text, the general introduction, the notes, and the refreshingly unfamiliar illustrations. Houghton-Mifflin hopes that the Riverside will replace the Pelican as the standard one-volume college Shakespeare. The Riverside's greater bulk (it weights in at 36 oz. to the Pelican's 31 oz.) gives the plays more room and is easier to use and easier on the eyes than the Pelican. The choice of which edition...
...year after publication of Daedalus issue, a hardcover volume comes out in a series by Houghton Mifflin known as the "Daedalus library." Authors of the original Daedalus papers have the oportunity to revise their work for a second edition. Finally, six months later, Beacon Press reprints the hardcover Houghton-Mifflin work as a paperback. The cycle from paper binding to paper binding to paper binding to paper binding emphasizes the need for long wear. For this quarterly, the back issues matter as much as the current ones...
...published Scrap Irony, a volume of light verse, and Mink on Weekdays, an account of her childhood in New York. Some of the pieces below have appeared in Harper's and McCall's, and will be included in another book of verse to be published soon by Houghton-Mifflin...