"Six Booksellers' Proctor Nonsuited, wherein the gross Falsifications and Untruths, together with the inconsiderate and weak Passages found in the Apologie for the said Booksellers, are briefly noted and evicted. And the said Booksellers proved so unworthy both in their Second Beacon Fired, and likewise in their Epistle written in Defence of it, that they are out of the Protection of any Christian or reasonable Apologie for either. By J. G., a Minister of the Gospel of {554} Jesus Christ. London printed for H. Cripps and L. Lloyd, 1655, 4to., pages 23." I might give an extract or two from this very interesting tract, but do not wish to trespass too much upon your space. Perhaps, next to Milton, there is no writer of the time of the Commonwealth equal to John Goodwin, in power and elevation of composition; and I am glad therefore to be able to add one more to the series of his pamphlets which his biographer has with so much industry and research enumerated at the close of the Life. JAS. CROSSLEY. * * * * * MR. COLLIER'S FOLIO SHAKSPEARE: A PASSAGE IN "AS YOU LIKE IT." It appears to me so obvious that the degree of authority to be conceded to each particular correction or emendation in Mr. Collier's folio Shakspeare must depend in a great measure on the general character of the proposed alterations throughout the work, that I cannot help thinking it would be desirable to reserve all controversy on such points until after the appearance of the promised volume. Such a resolution I made for myself, and to it I shall religiously adhere. This much only I shall say, that, of the specimens given by Mr. Collier in the _Athenæum_,--sufficient at once to excite interest and to gratify curiosity,--some of the corrections appear to be of that nature that no conjecture could have supplied, while all are good enough to command a deferential consideration. Your correspondent A. E. B. has attempted a defence of the original reading of two passages amended in Mr. Collier's folio. For the reason above given I shall neither answer your correspondent, nor even say whether I think him right or wrong; but it will not be overstepping the bounds I have prescribed myself, if I take up a collateral point he has raised in reference to one of these passages. To strengthen the case for the reading of the passage in _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4., "Whose mother was her painting," he cites a passage from _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 5., in which he says, "_mother_ is directly used as a sort of warranty of female beauty!" Here is the passage: "Who might be your mother, That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched?" Shakspeare was, if I am not mistaken, one of those persons to whom a _mother_ was, as some one expresses it, "the holiest thing alive." He concentrates this sentiment in the words of Troilus (_Troilus and Cressida_, Act V. Sc. 2.):