has been at work on it now for two years and a half, aided by a number of enthusiastic helpers, and if all goes well he hopes to have it in press at the expiration of two years. Such patient and disinterested labor as this cannot be too highly appreciated, and lovers of Shelley will welcome with delight the thread which will guide them through the mazes of his spirit-born speech.
Fifteen of the series of photo-lithographic fac-similes of the Griggs-Prætorius Shakespeare quartos have now been published, and as many as thirty-four altogether are photographed. "Venus and Adonis," 1593, with an introduction by Mr. Arthur Symons, is the last issue. The preceding issues, which it may be well to recapitulate here, were: the "Hamlet" quartos of 1603 and 1604; "Love's Labor's Lost," 1598; "The Merchant of Venice," 1600; and the "Rape of Lucrece," 1594; all of these with "Farewords," by Dr. Furnivall; the two "Midsummer Night's Dream" quartos, introduced by the Rev. J. W. Ebsworth; 1 and 2 "Henry IV." of 1598 and 1600, with introductions by Mr. Herbert A. Evans; the "Merry Wives," 1602; "Richard III," 1597; and the "Lear" quartos of 1608; these all prefaced by critical introductions by Mr. P. A. Daniel; and the "Passionate Pilgrim," 1599, with an introduction by Professor Dowden. The price of each volume has been raised to twenty-one shillings, but to a subscriber to the set, six shillings, or $1.50, is still the low price offered for a series which gives the text virtually every whit as well as either a rare and costly original or a scarcely less costly Ashbee fac-simile.
The foremost name in the list of Shakespeare scholars was stricken off on Thursday, January 3, by the death of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, a student of Elizabethan history, whose services to scholarship will last as long as the study of English letters continues.
