expression, and often of textual niceties, Mr. White is superior to any previous editor. [Footnote C: _Die Shakspere-Literatur bis Mitte_ 1854. Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von P.H. SILLIG. Leipzig. 1854.] [Footnote D: Among which (setting aside a few remarks of Goethe) we are inclined to value as highly us anything Tieck's _Essay on the Element of the Wonderful in Shakspeare_.] In proof of what we have said, we will refer to a few of the notes which have particularly pleased us, and which show originality of view. (_Tempest_, Act ii. Sc. 2.) "'_Nor scrape_ trenchering, _nor wash, dish_.' "Dryden, Theobald, Dyce, Halliwell, and Hudson would have 'trenchering' a typographical error for 'trencher,' which they introduce into the text. Surely they must all have forgotten that _Caliban_ was drunk, and, after singing 'firing' and 'requiring,' would naturally sing 'trenchering.' There is a drunken swing in the original line which is entirely lost in the precise, curtailed rhythm of-- '_Nor scrape_ trencher, _nor wash dish_.'" Other editors had retained "trenchering," but none, that we know, ever gave so good a reason for it. Equally good is his justification of himself for omitting Theobald's interpolation of "Did she nod?" in "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act i. Sc. 1. Other examples may be found in the readings, "There is a lady of Verona here," (same play, Act iii. Sc. 1); "Yet reason dares her _on_," (_Measure for Measure_, Act iv. Sc. 4); "Hark, how the villain would _glose_ now," (same play, Act v. Sc. 1); "The forced fallacy," (_Comedy of Errors_, Act ii. Sc. 1); in the note on "Cupid is a good hare-finder," (_Much Ado_, Act i. Sc. 3); the admirable note on "Examine those men," (same play, Act iii. Sc. 1); the readings, "Out on thee! Seeming!" (same play, Act iv. Sc. 1); "For I have only silent been," (ibid.); "Goodly Count-Confèct," and note, (same play, Act iv. Sc. 2); the note on "I do beseech thee, remember thy courtesy," (_Love's Labor's Lost_, Act v. Sc. 1); on "Mounsieur Cobweb," and "Help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch," (_Mid. Night's D_., Act iv. Sc. 1); on "Or in the night," etc. (same play, Act v. Sc. 1); on "Is sum of nothing," (_Merchant of Venice_, Act iii. Sc. 2); on "Stays me here at home unkept," (_As you like it_, Act i. Sc. 1); on "Unquestionable spirit," (same play, Act iii. Sc. 2); on "Move the still-piecing air," (_All's Well_, etc., Act ii. Sc. 2); and on "What is not holy," (same play, Act iv. Sc. 2). We have referred to a few only out of the many instances that have attracted our notice, and these chiefly for their bearing on what we have said of the editor's refinement of appreciation and originality of view. The merely illustrative and explanatory notes are also full and judicious, containing all that it is important the reader should know, and a great deal which it will entertain him to learn. In the Introductions to the several plays, too, we find many _obiter dicta_ of Mr.