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 CONCESSION RATES TO REVIEW SUBSCRIBERS. Macbeth and the Euin of Souls — By the Hon. Rev. V^illiam Miller, c.i.e., ll.d., Principal of the Madras Christian Colleafe.

The book starts with a discussion of the materials on which the tragedy is based. It regards the history of Macbeth as being in the main a study of how evil when once yielded to gradually induces total moral ruin. It shows how the central " business of the play is to maik the steps by which, and the influences under which, a man who at first appeals worthy of admiration becomes all that a man ought not to be." After tracing the moral ruin of Macbeth, it shows how by v difierent process Lady Macbeth arrives at an equally lamentable end. It then discusses each of the other chai-acters in sufficient detail to show^_ how the assaults of evil upon each of them are baffled on the one hand or are succes.-f ul on the the other. The book arrives at the conclusion that it is " as a supreme example of the strife which rages endlessly and everywhere on earth between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of hell that Macbeth holds the place of the most solemnly instructive of the gifts of literature to the generations of weak humanit}^." Cloth Bound, Re. One. In wrappers^ As. 8. Uniform with this volume and sold at the same price: — (1) Otliello and the Crash of Character. (2) Hamlet and the Waste of Life. (3) King Lear and Indian Politics. These four monographs are bound together in one volume under the title " Shakespeare's Chart of Life. Rs. 4. To subscribers of the Indian Revieio, Rs. 3.