** Philadelphia, 1858. See Essays on Shakespeare, Carl Elze; translated by Schmitz (London, Macmillan's 1874), note to p. 371. Even the {172}"best of that family" (according to the old clerk), William, when called to sign his own last will and testament (obliged by law to sign each of the three sheets upon which it was engrossed) three times, spelled his name a different way each time. His daughter Judith lived and died without being able to spell or write it at all; Milton, Spenser, Sidney, even Gower and Chaucer (whom even our own Artemus Ward pronounced "no speller"), had but one way of writing their own names--and never dreamed of one thousand nine hundred and six. The name is now supposed to have been simply "Jacques-Pierre" (James Peter), which had been mispronounced--as Englishmen mispronounce French--for unnumbered generations. * This is the present mispronunciation of Jacques prevalent in Warwickshire. And, such being the true origin of the name, it is, of course, natural to find it as we do, written in two words "Shake-speare," in those days. It is not William Shakespeare's fault that he sprang from an illiterate family, but that--after growing so rich as to be able to enjoy an income of $25,000 a year, he should never send his children--especially his daughter Judith--to school, so that the poor girl, on being married, on the 11th day of February, 1616, should be obliged to sign her marriage bond with a mark, shows, we think, that he was not that immortal he would have been had he written the topmost literature {173}of the world--the Shakespearean Drama! But, still, this most unsatisfactory person--this man who answers, like Mr. Carroll's skipper, to "hi, or to any loud cry"--= ```"To what-you-may-call-um or what-is-his-name ```But especially thing-um-a-jig,"=