When we consider the unwearied zeal and well-directed perseverance manifested by Mrs. Cowden Clarke in her admirable _Concordance to Shakspeare_, and the unvarying good taste and great ability with which she has shadowed forth the infant life of those female characters which Shakspeare has drawn with such mastery,--we feel that we have scarcely done justice to _The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines_ in allowing this graceful and interesting series of Tales to draw to the close, to which it has now been brought by the publication of _Viola the Twin_ and _Imogen the Peerless_, without having directed the attention of our readers to the various tales, as they were from time to time presented to the world. The press has been unanimous in commending the plan proposed to herself by Mrs. Clarke, as well as her execution of it; and although at the eleventh hour, we join most heartily in a commendation as well deserved as it has been universally bestowed. If Authors have their peculiar calamities, they may console themselves by the reflection that Editors have also some which are peculiarly their own. Is it a small matter to receive a book (with a title which alone would occupy nearly a column) containing upwards of a thousand closely-printed pages, and be expected to give, in the short space which we can allot to such notes, an account of its objects, merits, &c.? And yet, when one reads in the opening of _The Grammar of English Grammars, with an Introduction, Historical and Critical; the whole methodically arranged and amply illustrated_, &c., by Goold Brown,--that it is the fulfilment of a design formed upwards of a quarter of a century since,--one feels pained at being merely enabled to announce that it is a work obviously the fruit of much reflection on the part of its author, and as obviously deserving of the attention of all whose duty it is to discover the most advantageous system of inculcating the rules of English Grammar.