according to the periodical essayists, ‘contribute valuable suggestions to the illustration of the immortal bard’? ‘THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. ‘ACT I. SCENE I. ‘P. 92. The reading of the subsequent line has hitherto been “’Tis true; for you are over boots in love;” but the manuscript corrector of the Folio, 1632, has changed it to “’Tis true; _but_ you are over boots in love,” which seems more consistent with the course of the dialogue; for Proteus, remarking that Leander had been “more than over shoes in love,” with Hero, Valentine answers, that Proteus was even more deeply in love than Leander. Proteus observes of the fable of Hero and Leander— “That’s a deep story of a deeper love, _For_ he was more than over shoes in love.” Valentine retorts— “’Tis true; _but_ you are over boots in love.” _For_ instead of _but_ was perhaps caught by the compositor from the preceding line.’ It is difficult to fancy Shakespeare perusing a volume of such annotations, though we allow that we admire them ourselves. As to the controversy on his school learning, we have only to say, that though the alleged imitations of the Greek tragedians are mere nonsense, yet there is clear evidence that Shakespeare received the ordinary grammar school education of his time, and that he had derived from the pain and suffering of several years, not exactly an acquaintance with Greek or Latin, but, like Eton boys, a firm conviction that there are such languages.