"The expectancy and rose of the fair state." "There's something in his soul O'er which his melancholy sits on brood." "The native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." "The time is out of joint: 0, cursed spite + New-York: Printed, for William Winter, by Francis Hart & Company, 63 and 65 Murray Street. By WILLIAM WINTER, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Press of [Third Edition.] HIS version of "Hamlet," which, in its construction THIS and embellishment, is unlike all others, has been made for practical use on the stage. It is shorter than the original by about one thousand lines. The passages excluded are those which, it is thought, might prove tedious in the representation, and which, therefore, may well be spared. Among them are the episode of Fortinbras, the colloquy between Polonius and Reynaldo, and the interview betwixt Hamlet and the Norwegian soldiers. Certain speeches which momentarily arrest the action of the piece—such as that of Horatio on the preparations for war, and that of Hamlet on the custom of revelry, in Denmark-have been rejected, as impediments to directness of dramatic effect. The excisions also include dialogues, such as those at the beginning of the fourth act, which are but the descriptive repetition of action that has already been shown, or the narration of incident that has been distinctly implied. Passages which do but amplify and reiterate ideas that have previously been made sufficiently clear for the practical purposes of the stage have likewise been discarded. The servility of Rosencrantz and |