We commend to readers of this paper this latest authority, and can not forbear noting a few of his "discoveries." Mr. Rees has found out (p. 37) not only that William Shakespeare wrote the lines-- "-------Not a hair perished, On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before." ("The Tempest," i. 2) But that he took them from Deuteronomy viii. 4. And in Acts xxvii. 34: There shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you. In which the parallelism is in the word hair!!! Or, again (p. 36) that the lines: Though they are of monstrous shape,... Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, almost any ("The Tempest," iii. 3), are taken from the following: In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously,... who also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.--(Acts xxviii. 7-10. In which--unless it be in the fact that one of these passages is in an act and the other in Acts--the reader must find the parallelism for himself, without assistance from Mr. Rees. Shakespeare, Mr. Rees tells us, never neglected his Bible, because (p. 28) "he was indebted to one whose love added a bright charm to the holy passages she taught him to read and study--to his mother was Shakespeare indebted for early lessons of piety, and a reverence for a book from whose passages in afterlife he wove himself a mantle of undying fame!" It is to be hoped, for charity's sweet sake, that his latest authority has truth for his color and testimony {061}for his oil. The picture has at least the freshness and charm of utter novelty! The work of Shakespeare-making goes on. The facts are of record. We may ran as we read them! But rather let us, out of reverence for the errors of our fathers, refuse to read at all, and accept the ideal of Malone, of Halliwell and De Quincy, of Grant White, and of ten thousand more, who prefer to write their biographies of William Shakespeare, not in the first person, like Baron Munchhausen, nor in the second person, like the memoirs of Sully, but in the probable and supposititious person of "it is possible he did _this_," and "it is likely he did _that._"