“Seven Stages of Man” from As You Like It, which MacDonald believed was often misinterpreted as representing Shakespeare’s virtuous standards, rather than those of the amoral character who professed them. Both MacDonald’s book reviews in Orts were written for works by his friends: Rev. Thomas Toke Lynch, for whom MacDonald occasionally preached, and Dr. J. Rutherford Russell. “St. George’s Day, 1564” was also originally a review, untitled and unattributed to MacDonald in British Quarterly Review April 1864, devoted to two 1864 Shakespeare volumes. “The Elder Hamlet,” published in Macmillan’s August 1876, was the product of a six-lecture course on Hamlet that MacDonald had given a few months earlier. This copy is in very good condition.