Of these four hundred and twenty-six marginal changes, a very large proportion, quite one-half, and we should think more, are mere insignificant literal changes or additions, such as an editor in supervising manuscript, or an author in reading proof, passes over, and leaves to the proof-readers of the printing-office, by whom they are called "literals," we believe. Such are the change of "_Whon_ yond same starre" to "_When_ yond," etc.; "_Looke_ it not like the king" to "_Lookes_ it," etc.; "He _smot_ the sledded Polax" to "He _smote_," etc.; "_Heaven_ will direct it" to "_Heavens_ will," etc.; "list, _Hamle_, list," to "list, _Hamlet_, list"; "the _Mornings_ Ayre" to "the _Morning_ Ayre"; "My Liege and _Madrm_" to "My Liege and _Madam_"; "_locke_ of Wit" to "_lacke_ of Wit"; "both our _judgement_ joyne" to "both our _judgements_ joyne"; "my _convseration_" to "my _conversation_"; "the _strucken_ Deere" to "the _stricken_ Deere"; "_Requit_ him for your Father" to "_Requite_ him," etc.; "I'll _anoiot_ my sword" to "I'll _anoint_" etc.; "the _gringding_ of the Axe" to "the _grinding_" etc. To corrections like these the alleged forger must have devoted more than half his time; and if the thirty-one pages that "Hamlet" fills in the folio furnish us a fair sample of the whole of the forger's labors,[jj] we have the enormous sum of six thousand four hundred, and over, of such utterly useless changes upon the nine hundred pages of that volume. Such another laborious scoundrel, who labored for the labor's sake, the world surely never saw! [Footnote jj: Dr. Ingleby says,--"The collations of that single play are a perfect picture of the contents of the original, and a just sample of the other plays in that volume."--_Complete View_, p. 131.] But among these marginal changes in "Hamlet," a large number present a very striking and significant peculiarity,--a peculiarity which was noticed in our previous article as characterizing other marginal changes in the same volume, and which it is impossible to reconcile with the purpose of a forger who knew enough to make the body of the corrections on these margins, and who meant to obtain authority for them as being, in the words of Mr. Collier, "Early Manuscript Corrections in the Folio of 1632." That peculiarity is a _modernization of the text absolutely fatal to the "early" pretensions of the readings;_ and it appears in the regulation of the loose spelling prevalent at the publication of this folio, and for many years after, by the standard of the more regular and approximately analogous fashion of a later period, and also in the establishment of grammatical concords, which, entirely disregarded in the former period, were observed by well-educated people in the latter.