In closing, let me commend the _Sonnets_ as well adapted to give variety to any extended course in Shakespeare. They are not known to teachers, or to cultivated people generally, as they should be. In my own experience as a teacher, I have found that young people always get interested in these poems, if their attention is once called to them. I once gave one of my classes an informal talk on the _Sonnets_, merely to fill an hour for which there was no regular work, owing to an unexpected delay in getting copies of the play we were about to begin. Some months afterwards, when I asked the class what play they would select for our next reading if the choice were left to them, several of the girls asked if we could not take up the _Sonnets_, and the request was endorsed by a large majority. We gave about the same time to them as to a play, and I have never had a more enjoyable or, so far as I could judge, a more profitable series of lessons with a class. W. J. ROLFE. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW STREET SQUARE LONDON * * * * * * Transcriber's note: Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. The phrases [ 't is ] and [ 'T is ] in quotations in the original text have been retained, and not changed to the modern contracted form of 'tis and 'Tis. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg 9, 'his loving brother Richard' has been retained though this is factually incorrect. His brother was Edward (king Edward IV.) Pg 100, The text of the horn-book illustration given in the caption uses the letter ſ (the long-form s) to reflect the original text. Pg 208, 'Skakespeare; and' replaced by 'Shakespeare; and'. Pg 226, { and } bracketing has been removed from the declension table, and the two vertical text headings have been made horizontal. Pg 239, 'or Silesia' replaced by 'of Silesia'. Pg 243, 'stage requisities' replaced by 'stage requisites'. Index: 'Grammar Sehool' replaced by 'Grammar School'.