New books in review

KING RICHARD II. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Peter Ure. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. lxxxiii+207. $3.85. KING HENRY VI, PART 2. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Andrew S. Cairncross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. liv+197. $4.50. KING HENRY VIII. By William Shakespeare. Edited by R. A. Foakes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. lxv+215. $3.85. LITERARY CRITICISM: A SHORT HISTORY. By William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957; pp. xviii+755+xxii. $8.95 trade; $6.75 text. ANATOMY OF CRITICISM: FOUR ESSAYS. By Northrop Frye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957; pp. x+383. $6.oo. COUNTER‐STATEMENT. By Kenneth Burke. Phoenix Books; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957; pp. xiii+219. $1.25. THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM. By…