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
本書內容包括各種形式的王國建立的方法，也是一部教導野心家如何使用各種手段當上王位的「君王學」。《君王論》為西方政治思想史中聲明最著的經典作品之一，全書探討統治者的治國術(Arte dello stato)，分析領導者如何取得、維繫、並擴張其權利。作者馬基維利有意顛覆西方倫理學傳統，主張政治乃獨立於道德之外，他強調權力運作自有理路，如將政治泛道德化必導致毀滅的後果。其理論分析促成了近代政治思想脫離傳統目的論的範圍，並深刻影響了現代民族國家世俗化的政治意識。
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。
