scarcely seen, characters which many experience, and introduces us familiarly to Will Squele, a Cotswold man, William Visor of Woncot, and many others, whose intimacy we are glad to acquire. Successive chapters then deal with the particulars of the chase of the hart, the harbouring, unharbouring, hunting, baying, &c., the supper at Shallow Hall, a day's hawking, and other things. A work on these lines is always to some extent postiche; and as we have no personal knowledge of or interest in the chase, we find some portions of the book hardish reading, and are not quite convinced that we should not have preferred another method of conveying the information. As to the importance and interest of the subject and the value of the light cast upon the text we find it difficult to restrain our enthusiasm. We accompany our author gladly when he shows us that Shakspeare alone among Tudor dramatists was an abso. lute master of the manège, woodcraft, and falconry; that in every one of his undoubted plays, and nowhere else, the information is always accurate; and that any display of ignorance or imperfect knowledge amounts to a disproof of Shakspeare's authorship. We are deeply interested in the question of Shakspeare's stay in Gloucestershire, and we read with pleasure that wherever knowledge of the incidents or terminology of Elizabethan sport suggests a departure from the "amended" texts of Shakspeare which are now in favour, it leads uniformly to a restoration of the text of the first folio. 'The That the value of the text now offered will be accepted at once as equal to that of previous theories is not probable. Apart from all questions of exact tests, there are some things that sautent aux yeux. A boy with a tolerably good ear-anybody, indeed, except an actor-can find the work of Fletcher in 'Henry VIII.' As a rule, the soundest conclusions of criticism are supported by Mr. Madden. The allusions, moreover, in Shakspeare to the chase are very much more numerous than the general reader will be apt to believe. One of the first things done in support of the authenticity of the first folio is the establishing of the play of Titus Andronicus, which almost all critics have been disposed to reject. We commend, again, the evidence of the character of Shakspeare's alteration of the work of previous writers in The Second Part of King Henry VI.' In ' First Part of King Henry VI.' the play is barren of allusions to sporting, except in the scene in the Temple Gardens, which has long passed for Shakspeare's. In the case of Henry VIII.,' the conclusion long reached by scholars, that the play is, in the main, the work of some dramatist other than Shakspeare, is borne out. One is a little embarrassed to find that the hand of Shakspeare is traceable in A Yorkshire Tragedy,' and probably in other works of the time which have been assigned him by no English critics. We cannot go more fully into the questions raised, and we will be at no further pains in recommending the work. All seriously concerned in Shakspearian criticism are bound to read the critical portion, and there are few among them to whom it will not come as a startling revelation. of Sidney's youth by Greville, which is quoted, presents a And as he fell, and as he lived and loved, Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Charles Kent, Mr. H. R. Tedder, Mr. Charles Welch, and Mr. Warwick Wroth are responsible for valuable articles. Among the contributors is Mr. G. C. Boase, whose death we deplore. The Centuries: a Chronological Synopsis of History on the "Space-for-time" Method. Second Edition. (West, Newman & Co.) 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