EPHEMERA CRITICA BY J. CHURTON COLLINS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. The Spectator "We are much mistaken if they are rightly called Ephemera.” Daily Telegraph "He is transparently honest and earnest.' Times "He has read much; he thinks for himself; his learning is controlled by good sense; his sentences are logical and coherent, and he has the courage to speak plainly when, as is generally the case, his opinions are decided. It is a pleasure, in times when a loose, flabby texture, a conspicuous absence of logical method are taken to be positive virtues, to read his accurate, well-ordered prose. The mark of the scholar is over all the comments." IN SHAKESPEARE By J. CHURTON COLLINS Hier will ich nichts als Fermenta Cognitionis ausstreuen LESSING UNIV. OF NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO 932 C712 Preface THOUGH a put in the present volume, as the HOUGH a preface is generally superfluous, object of the essays here collected, as well as their relation to preceding contributions to the study of Shakespeare by other writers, may easily be misunderstood. The first essay, that on ERRATA Preface, p. vii, for "cumulately" P. 121, for "tyro" read "tiro" P. 151, read Stille Ruhn oben die Sterne more man suggestion, and neither Dr. Maginn nor Spencer Baynes contributed very much towards establishing their hypothesis. What merit my paper may have lies in the fact that it is very much fuller than anything which, so far as my knowledge goes, has yet appeared on the subject; that it suggests and marshals many new arguments in favour of the extended hypothesis that the poet was not merely a fair Latin scholar, but that his knowledge of the M'757969 |