This book containing lectures and review on Shakespeare’s work has met a need long felt by the Chinese college students, especially those in the department of foreign languages and literature. The life of Shakespeare are well selected and the lectures beautifully written. Thus it will serve not only as an introduction to Shakespeare, but also as a good text-book for those beginners who study Shakespeare both in the Chinese colleges and universities. Professor Lee is to be credited painstaking work in shooting the two birds with one stone. It is really an excellent brief work and a fresh approach to the Shakespearean study. 1. This book containing lectures and review on Shakespeare’s work has met a need long felt by the Chinese college students, especially those in the department of foreign languages and literature. 2. Thus it will serve not only as an introduction to Shakespeare, but also as a good text-book for those beginners who study Shakespeare both in the Chinese colleges and uni
卡萊爾在1841年撰著的《論英雄與英雄崇拜》（On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History），是英國維多利亞時代的歐洲甚具影響力的一部書。作者在書中將英雄定義為傳遞神旨予世人之人，除了神或者帝王，先知、教士、詩人、文人、學者、革命家等皆是他所論稱的英雄。如：但丁、莎士比亞為詩人英雄；約翰生、盧梭、彭斯為文人英雄等。卡萊爾並於書中提出──穆罕默德之成功在於其對於萬物的真誠，他認為「真誠」是英雄的首要特點。此外，卡萊爾亦曾撰文指責僅有花言巧語的演說家，並無真正的聰明才智。更推崇聖經使人類得到真理與德性的培養，使人生的奧秘的問題得到解答。
