u XL «*j »-^ JO CQ v X w P O Q. a x fr- ee o 2 e>au lV8Tt 51 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029648288 Reprinted from Cornell University Library Z8811 .N87 + On the bibliography of Shakespeare 3 1924 029 648 288 olin Overs THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY FOUNDED BY . GUSTAF E. KARSTEN Managing Editor JULIUS GOEBEL, University of Illinois Associate Editors H. S. V, JONES and G. T. FLOM University of Illinois Co-operating Editors HERMANN CO LLITZ, Johns Hopkins University GEORGE O. CURMEj Northwestern University WILLIAM W. LAWRENCE* Columbia University CLARK S. NORTHUP, Cornell University Volume XI, No. 2 April,, 1912 published quarterly by the university of illinois Urbana, Ill.,U. S. A. , Subscription Price $3.00 pe« Volume; Single Numbers $1.00 EUROPEAN AGENT: ADOLF WEIGEL, Leipzig^ Germany | (Entered at Urbana, Illinois, U.S. A. as second class matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894.) Copyright 1912 by the University of Illinois hZh%\&&- ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare Bibliography : a Dictionary of Every Known Issue of the Writings of Our National Poet and of Recorded Opinion Thereon in the English Language, 1 by "William Jag- gard. "With Historical Introduction, Facsimiles, Portraits, and Other Illustrations. Stratford-on-Avon. , At the Shake- speare Press. 1911. 4to, pp. xxiv, 729. 29 illustrations. Price, 3 guineas. Bibliographie. In Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare- Gesellschaft. Berlin. 1865-1911. 8vo. Annual volumes, 12 marks each. Questions on Shakespeare. By Albert H. Tolman, Asso- ciate Professor of English in the University of Chicago. Chi- cago. The University of Chicago Press. 1910. 8vo. Part I, 75 cents net ; Part II, $1 net. It is regrettable that up to the present time no well trained scholar or group of scholars has undertaken and pub- lished an adequate, comprehensive bibliography of the ever growing literature of Shakespeare. There have been many workers in the field: Mr. Jaggard includes over 150 biblio- graphical entries, and many of the works mentioned have decided merit. But for the most part, their authors have attempted to cover only a part of the ground (e. g. in com- piling catalogues of special collections, or lists on special subjects), or have attempted larger tasks for which they were not well fitted. Certainly if there is any one great author of whom we need a full analytical bibliography, it is Shakespeare^ Tear after year Shakespearean scholars and critics have gone on repeating themselves or others, ignorant of much that their predecessors have said, each writer playing the game in his 1 Reviews and comments on this volume have already appeared in The Atheiueum, May 20- June 3, 1911, pp. 569 (Frank Pacy,), 600 (reply by W. Jaggard ), 610, 629 (F. Pacy,); Notes and Queries 11th Series iv. 59, July 15, 1911; The Saturday Review cxi. 782, June 24, 1911; The Dial li. 192-194, September 16, 1911 (A. G. Newcomer) ; The New York Times Saturday Review xvi. 351, June 4, 1911 ; The Bookman (London) xl. 254-255, September, 1911 (Darrell Figgis) ; The Times Literary Supr plement May 4, 1911, p. 176. & ' i Northup own little corner of the universe. Some of this waste, assur- edly, a good bibliography might have prevented. Now Mr. William Jaggard, bookseller, and namesake and descendant of the Jacobean printer, has attempted, for all works in English, to supply the want. His work represents a vast amount of labor, for which all due credit must be given; it has evidently been a labor of love. His book is well printed, on good paper, and is not inconvenient to handle. It contains some interesting illustrations. More than this, however, we fear we cannot say in praise of the work. In our judgment, it has some faults which seriously impair its usefulness, not to say its trustworthiness ; faults which could have been easily avoided. In the first place, how complete is the work? Mr. Jag- gard 's claim is expressed in no uncertain language in the title and in the preface: "It gives minute details and avail- able locations of every known issue of Shakespeare's writings (whether written, printed, separate, collective, authentic, at- tributed, private, public, in or out of print) ; likewise of every tract, pamphlet, volume, or collection of Shakespearean comment; of each analogue or source, with notes of the pas- sages affected ; of every important contemporary or subsequent allusion to, or article on, the dramatist or his productions; of each autograph, genuine or forged ; of all engraved Shake- speare portraits ; with market values of the rarer entries. ..." He might have said, with becoming modesty, that it was his aim to give all these things ; instead, he assures us that he has "reconciled aim with achievement, faith with fulfilment." And some of the reviewers have believed him. Yet it is very easy to demonstrate that Mr. Jaggard 's performance comes very far short of his gorgeous advertise- ment. For example, Modern Philology, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Modem Language Notes are to be found in several of the great libraries of England; yet Mr. Jaggard has scarcely even heard of them. The ser- iousness of the omission will be indicated by the list of omitted Shakespearean articles in the first eight volumes of Modern Philology: On the Bibliography of Shakespeare E. B. Hale, Jr., "The Influence of Theatrical Conditions on Shakespeare" (i. 171-192). Wilhelm Creizenach, "Der bestrafte Brudermord and Its Relation to Shakespeare's Hamlet" (ii. 249-260). John T. Murray, "English Dramatic Companies in the Towns Outside of London, 1550-1600" (ii. 539-559). For Murray's book, see p. 718. George F. Reynolds, "Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging" (ii. 581-614, iii. 69-97). Elmer E. Stoll, "Shakspere, Marston, and the Malcon- tent Type" (iii. 281-303). Fred A. Howe, "The Authorship of The Birth of Merlin" (iv. 193-205). Aura Miller, "The Sixth Quarto of Hamlet in a New Light" (iv. 501-505). John W. Cunliffe, "The Influence of Italian on Early Elizabethan Drama" (iv. 597-604). Paul Shorey, "Shakespere and Seneca" (v. 143). George F. Reynolds, "Trees on the Stage of Shakespeare" (v. 153-168). Winifred Smith, "Italian and Elizabethan Comedy" (v. 555-567). Edward B. Reed, "The College Element in Hamlet" (vi. 453-468). Albert S. Cook, "Shakespeare, Richard II ii. 1. 41ff." (vi. 472-475). Albert H. Tolman, ' ' Alternation in the Staging of Shake- speare 's Plays" (vi. 517-534). "Winifred Smith, "A Comic Version of Romeo and Juli- ette" (vii. 217-220). Elmer E. Stoll, "Anachronism in Shakespeare Criticism" (vii. 557-575). E. S. Bates, "The Sincerity of Shakespeare's Sonnets" (viii. 87-106). "William J. Neidig, "The Shakespeare Quartos of 1619" (viii. 145-163), with 13 plates. Mr. Jaggard gives this, on p. 719, but with a wrong reference. E. H. C. Oliphant, "Problems of Authorship in Eliza- bethan Dramatic Literature" (viii. 411-459). 3 Northup C. R. Baskervill, "The Custom of Sitting on the Eliza- bethan Stage" (viii. 581-589). Likewise Mr. Jaggard omits such important articles as Professor J. Q. Adams's "Timon of Athens and the Irregu- larities in the First Folio" (J. E. G. Ph. vii. 53-63), which, as Dr. Ernest Wright remarks (The Authorship of Timon of Athens, New York, 1910, p. 98), seems to say the last word on the subject; and Professor Thorndike's "Relations of Hamlet to Contemporary Revenge Plays" (Publ. Mod. Lang. Ass'n xvii. 125-220), one of America's most important contributions to Shakespeare criticism. Moreover, if he had consulted Leonard A. Jones's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Boston, 1888), he could have added more than a dozen valu- able articles on Shakespeare's legal acquirements. He cer- tainly knew (see p. 221) of the rather primitive Digesta Shakespeareana issued in 1886 by the Shakespeare Society of New York ; yet he has not entered all the items even it contains. If he made any considerable use of the annual or biennial lists in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, it is not shown by the tests I have applied; I am inclined to think that he made very little use of these lists. But the strangest puzzle is how Mr. Jaggard could fail to consult Poole's Index to Periodical Literature and its supplements, in which some thirty columns of Shakespeare items have appeared. He has apparently never heard of it. His knowledge of the periodical literature on Shakespeare seems to be limited to those articles which have been indexed in some collection like that in the Boston Public Library. He refers to dozens of periodicals by the year only (see, for example, under Lowell, on "White's Shakespeare, Dyce, Dyer, Fiske, Fitzgerald, Foard, Folklore of Shake- speare, Hale, Snider, J. G. "Waller), indifferent to the fact that many periodicals print more than one volume in a year. So far as we have observed, the best section of his work is that which includes the writings of Mrs. Stopes ; and there is good reason to believe that she furnished that part herself. A list of other typical omissions may be given here: William Archer, "The Elizabethan Stage," The Quarterly Rev., April, 1908, ccviii. 442-471. Ernest A. Baker, A De- scriptive Guide to the Best Fiction, British and American 4 On the Bibliography of Shakespeare London, 1903. G. P. Baker, "Hamlet on an Elizabethan Stage," Shakes. Jahrbuch xli. 296-301. George Bartram, "Shakespeare's Boors," Macmillan's Magazine xei. 219-224, January, 1905. S. 0. Beeton, Letters by an Old Boy, Lon- don, 1866. R. Boyle, "Blank- Verse and Metrical Tests," Englische Studien xvi. 440-448. Austin Brereton, The Lit- erary History of the Adelphi and Its Neighborhood, London, 1907. P. Hume Brown, "Literature and History," The Scottish Historical Review vi. 1-12. John Burroughs, "Shakespeare's Natural History," Scribner's Monthly, March, 1881, xxi. 786-788. B. G. Burt, "Shakespeare in the Opinion of the Seventeenth Century, ' ' The New Englander xl. 304-327. E. W. Chubb, "Shakespeare's Influence upon Goethe," Trans. Mod. Lang. Ass'n of Ohio, 1900-2, pp. 81-94. The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. v (Cambridge, 1910) appeared in October, 1910, possibly too late to be included. Lewis N. Chase, The English Heroic Play, New York, 1903. Mary C. Clarke, "The Soldiers of Shakespeare, " Sharpe's Mag- azine ix. 24,143, x. 196,349. J. Churton Collins, "Had Shake- speare Read the Greek Tragedies ? ' ' The Fortnightly Review, April-July, 1903, lxxix. 618-637, 848-858, lxxx. 115-131. B. A. P. Van Dam and C. Stoffel, Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation, Heidelberg, 1902. C. K. Davis, Hamlet, Madame Roland: Lectures, St. Paul, 1882. K. Deigh- ton, The Old Dramatists: Conjectural Readings, 2d Series, Calcutta, 1898. E. Dowden, "Shakespeare," The Warner Li- brary of the World's Best Literature, New York, 1897. L. Einstein, The Italian Renaissance in England, New York, 1902. E. Ekwall, Shakespeare's Vocabulary, vol.i., Upsala, 1903. G. R. Elliott, "S.'s Significance for Browning," Anglia xxxii. 90-162. F. Karl Elze, "Notes and Conjectural Emendations on Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles," Englische Studien ix. 267-290. H. A. Evans, "A Shakespearian Controversy of the Eighteenth Century," Anglia xxviii. 457-476. N. H. Ewing, "Shakespeare's Enigma and Cipher," The Catholic World, Nov., 1906. W. W. Fenn, "Shakespeare and the Art of Painting," The Portfolio, April, 1889. F. G. Fleay, "Shakespeare and Puritanism," Anglia vii. 223-231. Clara French, The Dramatic Action and Motive of King John, Cam- bridge, 1892. Edw. Fuller, "The Theatrical Renaissance of 5 Northup Shakespeare," Lippincott's Mag., Jan., 1890. The Gateway to Shakespeare for Children, London, 1908. Chas. M. Gayley, Plays of Our Forefathers, London, 1908. Virginia C. Gilder- sleeve, Government Regulations of the Elizabethan Drama, New York, 1908. Thomas Gray, "Letters" (Gosse No. xliv), "Shakespeare Verses," and "Emendations" (the last in Tov- ey 's Gray and Eis Friends, Cambridge, 1890) . Hannah Grier- son, "Shakespeare and the Sea," The Contemporary Review, Jan., 1910, xcvii. 57-66. A. Gyulai, Shakespeare in Hungary, London, 1898. Mrs. S. Haarwood, The Shakespeare Cult in Germany from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time, Sidney, 1907. J. ~W. Hales, "London Residences of Shak- speare," The Athenaeum, March 26, 1904, pp. 401-402. John S. Hart, " Shakespeariana, " Hours at Home iii. 293- 300. J. Hengesbach, Readings on Shakespeare, Berlin, 1901. C. Hildreth, "The Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy," Univ. Studies ii. 147-162 (1897). J. H. Ingram, Christopher Mar- lowe and His Associates, London, 1904. D. Jones, "The Pronunciation of Shakespeare," The Athenceum, June 25, 1910, pp. 766-767. "John Lyly, Novelist and Dramatist," The Quarterly Review, Jan., 1896, clxxxiii. -110-138 (deals with Shakespeare's language). R. M. Johnston, Studies, Literary and Social, Indianapolis, 1891-2. Oscar Kuhns, Dante and the English Poets from Chaucer to Tennyson, New York, 1904. G. Latham, "The Petty Constable," Sh. Jb. xxxii. 133-48. Sidney Lee, "The Future of Shakespearean Research," The Nineteenth Century, May, 1906, lix. 763-778; "Ovid and Shakespeare's Sonnets," The Quarterly Review, April, 1909, ccx. 455-476; "Pepys and Shakespeare," The Fortnightly Revieiv, Jan., 1906, N. S. lxxix. 104-120; and ' ' Shakespeare, ' ' Diet. Nat. Biog. W. S. Lilly, ' ' Shakespeare 's Protestantism," The Fortn. Rev., June, 1904, N. S. lxxv. 966-983. H. W. Mabie and others, How to Study Shakespeare, New York, 1907. Joseph B. Mayor, "Tolstoi as a Shakespear- ian Critic," Trans. Royal Soc. Lit., 2d Ser. xxviii. 1. 23-55. Museus, arts, on S.'s summer, moon, and astronomy in The Contemp. Rev., July, 1910, xcvii. suppl. 34. 1-4 and 39. 1-4, July, 1908, xciv. suppl. 10. 1-6. B. B. Orridge, The City Friends of Shakespeare, London, 1869. John A. Pat- 6 On the Bibliography of Shakespeare terson, "Shakespeare's Astronomy," Jour. Royal Astron. Soc. of Canada, Sept.-Oct, 1907. W. J. Rolfe, "Pacts and Figures from Shakespeare," The Nation (New York) lxxxvii. 572-3, Dec. 10, 1908. L. Scharf, Chips from English Litera- ture, Aschersleben, 1881. P. B. Schelling, The Queen's Pro- gress, Boston, 1904. "Shakespeare's Ghosts, Witches, and Fairies," The Quart. Rev., July, 1890, clxxi. 91-121. L. A. Sherman, The Analytics of Literature, Boston, 1892. Roscoe A. Small, The Stage-Quarrel Between Ben Jonson and the So-called Poetasters, Breslau, 1899. C. Alphonso Smith, "The Chief Difference Between the First and Second Polios," Engl. Stud, xxx. 1-20. H. Statham, "The Morality of S." The Ninet. Cent, lxiii. 209-220. "William Stebbing, The Poets, Chaucer to Tennyson: Impressions, London, 1907. E. C. Stedman, The Nature of Poetry, Boston, 1892. W. W. Story, Excursions in Art and Letters, Edinburgh, 1891. Sir Edward Sullivan, "Shakespeare and the Waterways of North Italy," The Nineteenth Cent., Aug., 1908, lxiv. 216-232. P. H. Sykes, "Syllabus of a College Course of Thirty Lectures on S.," Teachers Coll. Record iv. 4. 9-39. S. A. Tannenbaum, Was W. S. a Gentleman? New York, 1909. D. L. Thomas, "On the Play Pericles," Engl. Stud, xxxix. 210-39. A. H. Thorndike, Tragedy, London, 1908. A. H. Tolman, Questions on Shakespeare, Chicago, 1910. T. G. Tucker, The Foreign Debt of English Literature, London, 1907. A. H. Upham, The French Influence in English Literature, New York, 1908. C. E. Vaughan, Types of Tragic Drama, London, 1908. E. Venable, "A Speculation Regarding S.," The School Review xiii. 717-731. W. Vietor, S.'s Pronunciation, Marburg, 1906. Alfred H. Wall, S.'s Face, Stratford-on-Avon, 1890. Chas. W. Wallace, Globe Theatre Apparel (see The Athenceum, Dec. 18, 1909, p. 772); "New Shakespeare Documents," Engl. Stud. xxxvi. 56-63; "S.'s Signature," The Nation (New York), Mar. 17, 1910, xe. 259-261. James Walter, S.'s True Life, London, 1890 [1889]. A. S. Way, "Relics of Ancient Aryan Polk-Lore in Shakespeare," The London Quart. Rev., Apr., 1906. H. S. Wilson, "The Genesis of Hamlet," The Gentle- man's Mag., Apr., 1889. Alice J. P. Wood, The Stage History of S.'s King Richard the Third, New York, 1909. H. Wood, 7 On the Bibliography of Shakespeare "S. Burlesqued," The Amer. Journal of Philol., Oct., 1905, xvi. 273-299. G. E. Woodberry, Makers of Literature, New- York, 1900. Ernest H. Wright, The Authorship of Timon of Athens, New York, 1910. The above long list might have been greatly extended; for examples of further omissions see the indexes of The Quarterly Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Forum, etc. It must also be added that very few book reviews have been entered. When one considers the importance of some of the reviews that have appeared, the omission becomes a very serious one. In the next place, the arrangement is neither clear nor logical. The alphabetical arrangement has been adopted, to so complete an extent that we find the editions of Shake- speare's works not at the beginning, where custom would lead us to look for them, but under S (pp. 280-585) ; this virtually bisects the main alphabet, and is very inconvenient. In view of this arrangement we are much surprised to find at the end of the list of editions (pp. 585-627) a separate alphabet headed by the following note: "The succeeding sub-alphabet deals with the poet individually, and chiefly consists of biog- raphy. " How consistent the editor has been in his classifi- cation is illustrated by the fact that whereas William Page's "Study of Shakespeare's Portraits" (Scribner's Monthly, September, 1875), dealing especially with the alleged death mask, is put in the sub-alphabet, John S. Hart's article on "The Shakespeare Death Mask" (Scribner's Monthly, July, 1874) is put in the main alphabet. Similarly, Collier's Shakespeare Library, a mere reprint of some of Shakespeare's source-books, is in the sub-alphabet, while Anders's Shake- speare 's Books, which deals with the education Shakespeare got from reading, is in the general alphabet. In the latter place, also, we find Foard's "On Shakespeare's Probable Connection with Lancashire" (The Manchester Quarterly, not Quar- terly Review, April, 1896) ; Mr. Jaggard's own articles on Shakespeare's portraits, his grave, and his religion; Robert Williams's Youth of Shakespeare; all of Mrs. Stopes's articles dealing with Shakespeare 's family ; and so on. It is of course desirable to bring together those books and articles that deal 8 Northup with the personality of the poet ; but likewise we should have separate alphabets devoted to books that merely refer to Shakespeare (e. g. Wild's Iter Boreale), or that contain only a line or two of appreciation or comment. Similarly, why should not all the matter dealing exclusively with a given play be brought together under the appropriate heading? If, for example, one wishes to know all that has been Written specifically about Hamlet, one must now, in addition to con- sulting the editions mentioned on pp. 306-317, turn the leaves to look up each of the references in the group given on pp. 317-318 ; moreover, if each article or book dealing with a single play were relegated to its appropriate sub-alphabet, the main alphabet would be so much the shorter and more easily scanned. Again, some works are wrongly entered even in the main alphabet. For example, Francis Peck's New Memoirs of the Life of Milton, which includes some notes, etc., on Shake- speare, is entered not under Peck but under Milton ! An arti- cle by a writer calling himself Monkshood ("Mingle mangle," p. 217) is entered under the first letter of its title! In this there is very little logic, and what there is, is bad. Some other minor points will here be noted: P. 35. Why are Browning's Works entered only in the Tauchnitz edition of 1872? "Men and Women" appeared in 1855. P. 73. Davis's Law in Shakespeare is an octavo. P. 91. A fifth volume of Ellis's Early Eng. Pronunciation appeared in 1890. P. 114. Why anglicize the first of Gervinus's names and not the second? P. 146. Ida Benecke's trans, of Heine has 189 pages. Several other page numbers are wrongly given. P. 176. Under Johnston, W. P., for Bedford read Bel- ford. P. 191. The works of Sir Sidney Lee are strangely re- ferred to S. L. Levi, the name which Mr. Lee formerly bore. To anyone who knows of the previous encounters of the two men, the animus of the reference is evident. In a work of this kind such a display of odium theologicum is as contemp- tible as it is amusing. 9 Northup P. 236. Notes and Queries is merely referred to, with the good advice to consult its general indexes. This is an easy way of avoiding hard work. On the same principle, why should Mr. J. print any reference that has already been listed in, say, the Shakespeare Jahrbuch? And why is his own note on "Shakespeare's Bible" (see p. 716) so much more important than everything else Shakespearean in N. and Q.t P. 250. Shakespeare's Plutarch was edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke. P. 269. "The Mad Characters in the Plays of Shake- speare" is by G-. Eoss. P. 437. Daly's edition of the Poems, 1841, is a 64mo. P. 602. Under bibliography should be added a reference to J. Moyes; under Biblical knowledge, a reference to T. Carter. Also under classical knowledge (p. 610) should be a reference to J. C. Collins; under fairies (p. 611) should be references to Lyric Ode and A. Nutt ; under family, a refer- ence to W. Black; under fools (p. 612) references to S. Davey and F. Douce; under mad folk (p. 615) a reference to Farren. The number of cross-references might have been very con- siderably increased. P. 679. It was not C. W. Wallace but A. Wallace who wrote on the life of Shakespeare (p. 626). P. 702. In Mr. Albright's book the adjective is spelled " Shaksperian. " What warrant has Mr. Jaggard for chang- ing this to "Shakespearean"? P. 715. What are Surrey's Songes, published when S. was only three years old (and when even Bacon was only six years old) doing here? On the same principle we should include Robinson Crusoe or The Castle of Otranto in a bibliography of Scott, since they heralded the dawn of the novel. P. 717, col. 2. The Introduction to Shakespeare is by H. N. MacCracken, F. B. Pierce, and W. H. Durham. Thus it will appear that Mr. Jaggard 's book is in many respects lamentably provincial and defective; and, however good may have been its compiler's intentions, quite unworthy of the immortal bard of Avon. Probably, however, we must 10 On the Bibliography of Shakespeare not expect to see anything better for some years to come. Publishers are not eager to risk capital in enterprises of this kind, and until bibliographical work is more fully appre- ciated, it is too much to hope that a band of expert biblio- graphers shall do the thing over and do it properly. It is a pleasure to turn to the bibliographies compiled for the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, which have been in progress for nearly half a century. For reference the fol- lowing list of the series is included : Compiled by Albert Cohn, Antiquarian and Bibliographer 2 1864-July, 1865 Jahrbuch i. 418-447 1865 August, 1865-October, 1866 ii. 393-405 1867 November, 1866-February, 1868 . iii. 413-435 1868 March, 1868-February, 1870.... v. 379-401 1870 March, 1870-March, 1871 vi. 371-388 1871 April, 1871-December, 1872... viii. 377-394 1873 1873-74 x. 384-418 1875 1875-76 xii. 325-374 1877 1877-78 xiv. 365-394 1879 1879-80 xvi. 431-475 1881 1881-82 xviii. 301-330 1883 1883-84 xx. 355-398 1885 1885-86 xxii. 284-333 1887 1887-88 xxiv. 213-278 1889 1889-91 xxvii. 321-400 1892 1892-93 xxix.-xxx. 324-364 1893 1894-96 xxxiii. 307-406 1897 1897-99 xxxvi. 348-440 1900 By Richard Schroeder, Oberbibliothekar in the University of Kiel 1900 xxxvii. 314-383 1901 1901 xxxviii. 350-438 1902 1902 xxxix. 361-436 1903 By Gustav Becker 1903 xl. 383-458 1904 1904 xli. 326-392 1905 2 See Brockhaus's Konv.-Lex., 14th ed., iv. 408, and The Athencewm, Sept. 9, 1905, p. 336. 11 Northup By Richard Schroeder 1905 xlii. 347-467 1906 1906 xliii. 383-475 1907 By Hans Daffis, Bibliothekar in the University of Berlin 1907 xliv. 393-450 1908 1908 xlv. 427-475 1909 1909 xlvi. 351-403 1910 1910 xlvii. 372-415 1911 The bibliographies have appeared regularly, and have been admirably kept up to date. The number of pages printed for 1864-1910 aggregates 1480. Since 1900, when numbering was introduced, 6,025 items have been listed. Lack of space forbids an extended criticism of these lists. They are remarkably full, including book reviews and the briefest notes. The arrangement is by countries : I. England und Amerika ; II. Deutschland, Oesterreich-Ungarn, Schweiz ; III. Frankreich und Belgien; IV. Italien; V. Verschiedene europaeische Laender; VI. Aussereuropaeische Laender. It is of course interesting to see what the different countries are contributing to the literature of the subject; we think, how- ever, that this is more than offset by the disadvantage of hav- ing to consult several alphabets instead of only one for each year. Another defect is that the contents of some periodicals (e. g. New Shakespeareana, Jahrbuch xlv. 438-9) are listed as contents of the respective periodicals instead of alphabetically under their authors' names. This much impairs the value of the lists for purposes of reference. Notwithstanding these slight blemishes, German scholars, excelling in many fields, may also point with pride to this series. As for Shakespearean bibliography in England and America, after three hundred years, we now have — Mr. Jag- gard! Professor Tolman has undertaken on a comparatively large scale to supply students and teachers with a complete working apparatus for the inductive study of Shakespeare. His work will appear in six volumes, of which Part I (Intro- ductory) and Part II (The First Histories, Poems, Comedies) are before us. With the questions themselves we are not here specially concerned. In so far as they are interpretative or 12 On the Bibliography of Shakespeare suggestive, they seem to be good and useful. We are not so sure about the questions on the text or meaning, many of which merely call for the explanation of single words. We wish, however, to commend the select general bibliography, which fills about half of Part I, and the special bibliographies appended to the questions on the individual plays and poems. It may be remarked that in some sections the order is neither alphabetical nor chronological. In general, however, these lists leave little to oe desired. The selection is good, the annotations are sensible and sound, and there are full indexes. The student who becomes familiar with the books here men- tioned will be well equipped for special study. Claek S. Northup. Cornell University. 13