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[i]
A LETTER
ON
SHAKSPERE'S AUTHORSHIP
OF
 The Two Noble Kinsmen.
[ii]
[iii]
A LETTER

ON

SHAKSPERE'S AUTHORSHIP

OF

The Two Noble Kinsmen;
AND ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SHAKSPERE'S STYLE
AND THE SECRET OF HIS SUPREMACY.
 
BY THE LATE
WILLIAM SPALDING, M.A.,
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND AFTERWARDSPROFESSOR OF LOGIC, RHETORIC, AND METAPHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF STANDREW'S; AUTHOR OF 'A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE,' ETC., ETC.
 
 New Edition, with a Life of the Author,
BY
JOHN HILL BURTON, LL.D.,
AUTHOR OF
'THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,' ETC., ETC.
 
PUBLISHT FOR
The New Shakspere Society
BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 57, 59, LUDGATE HILL,
LONDON, E.C., 1876.
[iv]Series VIII. No. 1
JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.
[v]
FOREWORDS
This Letter by Prof. Spalding has always seemd to me one of the ablest(if not the ablest) and most stimulating pieces of Shakspere criticism Iever read. And even if you differ from the writer's conclusion as toShakspere's part, or even hold that Shakspere took no part at all, inthe Play, you still get almost as much good from the essay as if youaccept its conclusions as to the authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen.It is for its general, more than for its special, discussions, that Ivalue this Letter. The close reasoning, the spirited language, theperception and distinction of the special qualities of Shakspere's work,the investigation into the nature of                        
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