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from his book. I should be very sorry indeed
if I had been unfair. Let me repeat the
extract from p. 38 exactly as printed :
"In the year just named, however (1598), the Play of ' Love's Labour 's Lost ' was shown to be an old Play by the announcement on its title-page that it had been ' presented before her Highness last Christmas ' and that it had been newly corrected and enlarged by ' William Shakespeare.' "
Nov MR. PITT-LEWIS introduces here quota- t'on marks : these would lead any one to suppose that the words so quoted were on the title-page to which he refers. In both instances the quotation is incorrect, as may be seen from my extract of the quarto title- page (ante, p. 170). If MR. PITT-LEWIS was not quoting from the title-page, why did he introduce the quotation marks ?
However, the inaccuracy in regard to the title-page is of small importance, compared with the fact that MR. PITT-LEWIS founds his whole argument on the supposition that
- ' Shakespeare" was Bacon's pen-name, and
that it was so used on the early title-pages. But this was not the case in the quarto of 1598, to which MR. PITT-LEWIS refers ; on the contrary, the author's name is printed " W. Shakespere." MR. PITT-LEWIS is careless and inaccurate in referring in his note to the
- title-page of the Folio of 1598." I know the
quarto of 1598, but have never heard of a Folio of 1598.
As to the final remarks of MR. PITT-LEWIS, I can assure him that, as an ardent student of Shakespeare, I am eager to get any new light that I can possibly obtain on the immortal poet's life and writings. I have waded through the volumes of Delia Bacon, Wigston, and the rest, including last, but not least the book which MR. PITT-LEWIS published some months ago. I find in them all endless hypothesis and assertion, but not one single historical fact on which this modern theory could be reasonably constructed.
D. E. CLARK. Glasgow.
SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY PHRASES (10 th S. ii. 425, 533). Might not "Spaniard's disci- pline " refer to the ' CX. Considerationes ' of Juan de Valdes, translated into English by Nicholas Ferrar ? Mention of this work is made in 'John Inglesant,' as well as of the ' Spiritual Guide ' of Molinos.
W. L. POOLE.
Montevideo.
EPITAPHS : THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. i. 44, 173, 217, 252, 334 ; ii. 57, 194, 533; iii. 114, 195). I submit the following list of works on the subject. Of course any such lists
must be very fragmentary, for the published
epitaphs of both churches and churchyards
must be immense. A large number of these
are hidden away in county histories and
periodicals devoted to genealogy. A methodi-
cal index locorum to these published in-
scriptions on the lines of Dr. Marshall's list
of printed parish registers is much to be
desired. I have omitted from my list the
titles of works on brasses and the heraldry of
churches and churchyards, which, of course,
deal more or less directly with the subject.
One of the best-known MS. sources of in-
formation is the large collection of M.I.
formed by Thos. Hay ward, of Hungerford
(Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 13916-13953). There
are hundreds of other MSS. for the curious
student to be found at the British Museum
and elsewhere.
Of general works on tombstone literature, much information, together with many curious cuts of headstones, mostly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, may be gained from W. T. Vincent's 'In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious,' 102 illustrations, Lond., 1896. The work is almost unique in its par- ticular subject. Mrs. Holmes's 'London Burial-grounds ' is also indispensable as an introduction to the subject.
Dingley's History from Marble. 1867-8 (Camden Society).
EIIITA<PlA. A Collection of Epitaphs to Faith- ful Servants. [Longmans] 1826.
Epitaphs and Epigrams, Curious, Quaint, and Amusing, from Various Sources. S. Palmer, 1869.
Munby (A. J.). Faithful Servants: Epitaphs and Obits. 1891.
Norfolk (H. E.). Gleanings from Graveyards. London, 1886.
Pulleyn (W.). Churchyard Gleanings. (1830?)
Cumberland.
Mon. Inscr. of Wigton, Cumberland. Rev. J. Wilson, 1892.
Derbyshire.
Mon. Inscr. of Ashbourn, Derbyshire. Boothby & Seward, 1806.
Durham.
Mon. Inscr. of Cathedral, Parish Churches, and Cemeteries of the City of Durham. C. M. Carlton. Vol. I. These are complete and verbatim, so far as they go, but no more volumes were published.
Essex.
Heraldry and Mon. Inscr. in Churches and Disused Burial-grounds of Harwich, Dovercourt, and Ramsay, Essex. J. H. Bloom.
Gloucestershire. Mon. Inscr. of Charlton Kings, Glouc. B. H.
Blacker, 1876. Mon. Inscr. of Cheltenham Church. B. H. Blacker,
1877.
