ROFFE (E.). A musical triad from Shakespeare. The clown in Twelfth Night, Autolycus. The Lord of Amiens. Also Shakespeare upon art and nature. To which is added: Old English singers and Mr. Bowman, actor, singer, and ringer. Written by Alfred Roffe. Rochester Press, 1872. 4to. (20 copies only printed, for private distribution).

ROLFE (W. J.). 'Grey' eyes and 'blue' eyes in Shakespeare.

Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Vol. III, No. 9, May 1, 1879, p. 72.

ROLFE (W. J.) and Jos. CROSBY. [A list of misprints in the Globe edition.]
Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Vol. III, No. 3, Feb. 1, 1879, p. 24; No. 12,
June 15, 1879, p. 98.

ROLFE (W. J.). The possessive It in Shakespeare.

The Literary World. Boston. No. 128, Nov. 22, 1879, p. 384.

ROLFE (W. J.). A passage in 2 Henry IV [Act IV, sc. 4, 1. 132 'into some other chamber'].

The Academy. London. March. 27, 1880, p. 236; Id., April 10, 1880, p. 271, by W. Aldis Wright. ROLFE (W. J.). Much Ado about Nothing, Act V, sc. 4, 1. 63: 'One hero died defil'd, but I do live'.

Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Vol. III, No. 6, March 15, 1879, p. 47-48. ROLFE (W. J.). The sagittary' in Othello, Act I, sc. 1, l. 159. Act I, sc. 3, l. 115.

The Literary World. Boston. No. 124, Sept. 27, 1879. ROLFE (W. J.). Plantain for a broken shin. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 2, 1. 52: 'Your plantain-leaf is excellent for that'.

Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Vol. III, No. 2, Jan. 15, 1879, p. 14-15.
ROSCOE (Edward). Hamlet: his character and critics.

Victoria Magazine. London. April, 1873.

ROSIER (Joseph Bernard). Midsummer Night's Dream (Songe d'une nuit d'été) a comic opera in three acts, by Messrs. Rosier and Leuven. Music by Ambroise Thomas. Presented for the first time in Paris, at the Théâtre de l'Opéra comique, on April 20, 1850, and in New York, at the French Theatre, on October 30th, 1866. Directors: P. Juignet and C. Drivet. The English translation by Miss Barnett. New York: J. A. Gray and Green, printers. 1866. 8vo. pp. 46. 6.

Shakespeare and Fallstaff are the principal characters. There are added to the libretto six pages of music. [From Mr. Hubbard's catalogue].

ROSLYN (Guy). Nursery tales from Shakspere. 1. Found by fairies [Midsummer Night's Dream]. 2. The enchanted island [Tempest]. 3. Marina, the princess born at sea [Pericles]. 4. Shylock, the jew of Venice.

New Monthly Magazine. London. July, August, September, November, 1879.
ROSSETTI (William Michael). Shakespeare.

Lives of famous poets. By W. M. Rossetti. London 1878. 8vo.
RUSKIN (John). Notes on a word in Shakespeare.

Arrows of the Chace: being a collection of scattered letters. By John Ruskin.
Oxford pupil. With preface by the author. 2 vols. Orpington: Allen, 1880.
p. 257-261.

Edited by an

8vo. Vol. II,

SCHILLER'S Macbeth.

Dublin University Magazine. October, 1874.

SCHUETZ-WILSON (H.). The non-dramatic in Shakespeare.

International Review. New York. Novemb., 1877.

SEAMER (M.). Shakespeare's stories simply told. With 130 illustrations by Frank Howard. London: T. Nelson and Sons, [1880] 8vo. pp. 312.

SECCOMBE (Major). Military misreadings in Shakspere. Printed in colours

by Edmund Evans. London: Routledge and Sons, 1880. 4to.

SELKIRK (J. B.), pseud. [. e. James Brown]. Bible truths with Shakspearian parallels. Fourth edition. London [Edinburgh printed]: Wittaker and Co. [1879]. 16mo. pp. 116.

SETON (Matthew). Recent Shakesperian revivals. I. Hamlet and Macbeth, at the Lyceum. II. Richard III. and Macbeth, at Drury Lane. Henry V., at the Queen's.

New Monthly Magazine. London. January and March, 1877.
Shakespeare and the supernatural.

Chambers' Journal. Edinburgh. Jan. 24, 1874.

The Shakespeare anniversary in Birmingham. Our Shakespeare club. Shakespeare reading club. Birmingham dramatic club.

The Birmingham Daily Post. April 24, 1879.

The Birmingham Weekly Post. April 26, 1879.
Shakspere anniversary at Dudley [celebrated by the Dudley Garrick club.].
The Birmingham Daily Gazette. April 25, 1879.

Shakspere celebrations: The Dudley Garrick club. Birmingham dramatic club. Anniversary at Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Birmingham Daily Globe, April 26, 1880.

Shakspere gems. By the author of "The book of familiar quotations'. London: G. Routledge [1880]. 8vo. pp. VIII, 333.

Part of the 'Excelsior Series'.

Shakespeare in motto cards. Six cards, floral initial letters and quotations from Shakespeare. London: Rotte, 1877.

The Shakspere memorial at Stratford-on-Avon.

The Birmingham Daily Globe, July 2, 1880.

The Shakespeare memorial buildings. Inauguration of the theatre. The festival. Dr. Westland Marston's dedicatory address [in verse]. The Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, April 25, 1879. April 25, 1879.

The Stratford-upon-Avon Chronicle,

Opening of the Shakespeare memorial theatre, Stratford-on-Avon. Preliminary programme. Stratford-on-Avon: Herald Printing and Stationary Company, 1879. 8vo. pp. 8.

A Shakspere monument [a seated figure of Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorik, modelled by Lord Ronald Gower and exhibited at the Royal Academy]. The Academy, London. May 8, 1880. p. 350.

New Shakspere Society. Series I (Transactions). The New Shakspere Society's transactions. 1877-9. Part II. A time-analysis of the plots of Shakspere's plays: I. [VIII.] Comedies. II. [IX.] Tragedies. III. [X.] Histories. By P. A. Daniel. 8vo. pp. (II.) 117-346. Preceded by: List of papers. Seventh session, 1 leaf. Second report, August, 1879. pp. 14, and a list of the publications of the Society, etc., 1 leaf.

New Shakspere Society. Series I (Transactions). Series I (Transactions). The New Shakspere Society's transactions. 1877-9 [Part III]. 8vo. pp. (IV), IV, XIX-XL, 3, 347--481. Appendix, pp. 11*-82*.

Contents: Minutes of meetings, Oct. 1879 to Decemb. 1879 [including abstracts of the follo-
wing papers: Shakspere's reconciliation with the world, as exhibited in the plays of the fourth
and last period, by T. Taylor. The fairies; the witches; Ariel and Caliban].

XI. HAGENA. Some remarks on the introductory scene of the second part of Shakspere's
Henry IV. With a commentary by P. A. Daniel.

XII. PHIPSON (Miss E.). The natural history similes in Henry VI.

XIII. KIRKMAN (J.). Animal nature versus human nature in King Lear. List of animals in
K. Lear, etc. Discussion by F. J. Furnivall.
XIV. RUSKIN (John). On 'yon grey lines that fret the clouds', Julius Caesar II, 1. 103-104.
XV. INGLEBY (C. M.). On Hamlets 'some dozen or sixteen lines': an attempt to rebut the argu-
ments both of Mr. Malleson and Prof. Seeley (Transactions for 1874, p. 465-498).
Discussion.

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XVI. OVEREND (G. H.). On the dispute between George Maller, glazier and trainer of players to
Henry VIII, and Thomas Arthur, tailor, his pupil.

XVII. FURNIVALL (F. J.). On Puck's 'swifter than the moon's sphere' and Shakspere's astronomy.
XVIII. On Chester's Love's Martyr: Essex is not the turtle-dove of Shakspere's Phoenix and
Turtle. Discussion (Miss Phipson).

XIX. PULLING (Fred. S.). The 'speech ending test' applied to twenty of Shakspere's plays.

XX. Scraps:

FURNIVALL (F. J.). Breed interest.

HART (H. C.).

WALLIS (Alfred). The wise woman. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, sc. 5, 1. 27.
FURNIVALL (F. J.). Bassanio's arrows. Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1.
Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 3, 1. 135.
"Good wine needs no bush.' As You Like It, epilogue.
Cage ot rushes. As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2, 1. 387.
Dyeing scarlet. 1 Henry IV, Act II, sc. 4, 1. 136.
Emerald and eye-sight. A Lover's Complaint, II. 213, 214.
Painting = rouge. Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4, 1. 52.
Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1, 1. 93.

HART (H. C.).
HART (H. C.).
SPALDING (T. A.).

FURNIVALL (F. J.).

Stewed prunes.

STONE (W. G.).

STONE (W. G.)

Swashing blow. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1, 1. 70.
Veney. Merry Wives, Act I, sc. 1, 1. 296.

FURNIVALL (F. J.).

Cannot want. Macbeth, Act III, sc. 6, 1. 8.
As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7. 1. 239.
Below stairs. Much. Ado, Act V, sc. 2, 1. 10.

The world a stage.
HART (H. C.).

HART (H. C.).
Etc. Etc.

Whose face between her forks. K. Lear, Act IV, sc. 6, 1. 121.

XXI. THIMM (Franz). Shakspere literature from 1876 to 1879.

Appendix. I. The only 3 leaves left of William Wager's Cruell Debtter, 1566.

II. Shakspere's 41/2 yards of cloth on March 15, 1603-4.

[The MS. respecting the delivery of a piece of red cloth has been printed before in: The Athenaeum, April 30, 1864 and: The Athenaeum, June 19, 1880, and a reply by Mr. FURNIVALL, ibid. June 26, 1880].

III. Prof. WILSON'S solution of the mystery of double-time in Shakspere.

IV. MATTHEW (F. D.). Contents of the German Shakspere Society's year book, vol. XI.—XIV. WILKINSON (Miss Isabel). Index.

Second report, August 1879.

New Shakspere Society. Series II. (Plays).

No. 10. The Life of Henry the Fift. Written by William Shakespeare. The edition of 1623, newly revised and corrected, with notes and an introduction, by Walter George Stone. London, 1880. Roy. 8vo. pp. (IV), CVI, 180.

New Shakspere Society. Series IV. (Shakspere Allusion Books).

No. 2. Shakespeare's centurie of prayse; being materials for a history of opinion on Shakespeare and his works, A. D. 1591-1693. By C. M. Ingleby. Second edition, revised, with many additions, by Lucy Toulmin Smith. London, 1879. Roy. 8vo. pp. (II), XXIII, 471.

New Shakspere Society. Series VI. (Shakspere's England).

No. 6. Phillip Stubbes' anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A. D. 1583. Part I. (Collated with other editions in 1583, 1585, and 1595.) With extracts from Stubbes' Life of his wife, 1591; and his Perfect pathway of felicitie, 1592 (1610), and Bp. Babington on the Ten commandments, 1588; also the fourth book of Thomas Kirchmaier's (or Naogeorgius's Regnum papismi or Popish kingdom (English by Barnabe Googe, 1570), on popular and popish superstition in 1553. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. London, 1877–79. Roy 8vo. pp. (VI), 3* - 98*, 113-376. 1 folding-plate. [Illustrations in the text.] On Stubbe's Anatomy, see Mr. Furnivall's papers in: The Academy, April 10, 1880, p. 267; May 1, 1880, p. 324. The Revue critique. Paris. May 17, 1880, contains a review by J. J. Jusserand.

No. 7. The rogues and vagabonds of Shakspere's youth, described by In. Awdeley in his Fraternitye of vagabondes, 1561-73, Thos. Harman in his Caueat for common cursetors, 1567-73, and in The groundworke of conny-catching, 1592. Edited by Edward Viles and F. J. Furnivall in 1869 for the Early English Text Society, and now reprinted. London, 1880. Roy. 8vo. pp. (X), XXX, 112. [Illustrations in the text.]

Shakespeare Society at Philadelphia. Twenty seventh annual dinner of the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia. All the citations this year are from our winter's study Troylus and Cressida and have been verified by the copy of the first folio in the library of one of the members. Philadelphia: one hundred and fifty copies privately printed, 1879. Twenty-eighth annual dinner, etc. All the citations this year are from our winter's study King Lear and have been verified by the text of the new Variorum edition in the libraries of all the members. [Philadelphia]: 100 copies privately printed. 4to. Each, pp. 4.

Shakespeare's household words, a selection from the wise saws of the immortal bard, illuminated by Samuel Stanesby. London: Griffith and Farran, [1875]. 16mo. pp. (II), 28, and portrait.

[Shakespeare's mortgage to Henry Walker for £ 60, dated March 11, 1612-13, of the house and a piece of ground near the Burbages' 'Blackfriars Theatre' autotyped from the orginal in the British Museum. 1880]. obl. fol,

On Shakespeare's spelling.

The Spelling Reformer. London. No. 4, for October, 1880,

Shakespeare's use of the Bible.

Cassell's Family Magazine. London. July, 1879,

Shakespearean celebrations: Our Shakespeare club. Birmingham dramatic club. Birmingham Shakespeare reading club. The Shakespeare memorial association. Shakespearean anniversary at Dudley.

The Birmingham Daily Post. April 26, 1880.

Shakespearian gems. Six illuminated designs, suitable for Christmas and New Year's greetings, or for presentation. London, [1878]. 16mo. Shakespearian gossip. Edited by J. Parker Norris. Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Vol. III, (1879). under this heading see s. v. BRAE, CLARKE (Mary Cowden), CROSBY, ELZE, FISCH, FLEAY, INGLEBY, LEIGHTON, NORRIS, ROLFE, SLEETH.

Shakespeariana. Edited by W. J. Rolfe.

For the papers published

The Literary World. Boston, Vol. X. (1879). For the papers published under this heading, see s. v.
BRAE, CROSBY, ROLFE.
SKEAT (Walter W.).
Notes and Queries 1880,
SKEAT (Walter W.).

detested'.

Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1: 'As if it were Cains jaw-bone'.
Aug. 21, p. 143; Aug. 28, p. 162, by R. R.
King Lear, Act II, sc. 4: ‘.

Notes and Queries 1880, Oct. 30, p. 343.

and sumpter to this

SLEETH (Geo. M.). Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2, ll. 14-20: 'Did'st thou not hear a noise?' etc.

Robinson's Epitome of Literature. Philadelphia. Aug. 1, 1879, p. 121.

SMITH (Lucy Toulmin). The acting of Hamlet: Reynold's 'Primerose' [Dolarny's Primerose, 1606].

The Academy. May 17, 1879, p. 437.

SNIDER (D. J.). The system of Shakespeare's dramas. New edition. St. Louis, Miss.: G. I. Jones and Co., 1879. 2 vols. 8vo.

See: Jahrbuch XIV, p. 380.

An extensive review of the work, by C. Blasius, will be found in: Englische Studien, herausg. von E. Kölbing. Halle. III. Band, 2. Heft, 1880, p. 359-368.

SONNENSCHEIN (E. A.). Shakspere on the German stage [at Munich, July 1 to 21, 1880].

The Academy. London. August 7, 1880, p. 106-107.

[Sonnets.] In the Alleyn Papers preserved in the College library and muniment room, Dulwich, there is a note of the purchase of 'Shaksper's' Sonnets by Edward Alleyn in 1609, the year of publication, for the sum of fivepence. This single mention of Sh. appears to have been hitherto overlooked. Mr. G. F. Warner is preparing a detailed catalogue of the Alleyn papers and other MSS. at Dulwich College.

Athenaeum, May 22, 1880.

SOULE (Charles C.). A new travesty on Romeo and Juliet, as presented before the University club of St. Louis, Jan. 16, 1877. St. Louis, Miss.: G. I. Jones and Co., 1877. 8vo. pp. 53.

SPALDING (Thom. Alfred). Elizabethan demonology. An essay in illustration of the belief in the existence of devils, and the powers possessed by them, as it was generally held during the period of the Reformation and the times immediately succeeding; with special reference to Shakspere and his works. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880 [1879]. 8vo. pp. XIII, 151.

Papers read before the New Shakspere Society in 1877 and 1878, enlarged. For a review by
F. J. Furnivall see: The Academy, April 24, 1880.

SPEDDING (James). The story of The Merchant of Venice.
Cornhill Magazine. London. No. 243, for March 1880.

SPEDDING (James). The first two editions of Romeo and Juliet.

Athenaeum, No. 2757, Aug. 28, 1880, p. 272-73.

SPENCE (R. M.). O few notes on Othello [Act I, sc. 1, 1. 21: A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife. Act I, sc. 2, 1. 75: That weaken motion'

Act I, sc. 3, 1. 155: 'But not intentively'.
Notes and Queries 1879, May 17, p. 383.

SPENCE (R. M.). The Obeli (+) of the Globe edition in All's Well that ends Well.

See: Jahrbuch XIV, p. 380.

Notes and Queries 1879, Febr. 15, p. 124-25.
SPENCE (R. M.). The obeli of the Globe edition in King Henry VIII.
Notes and Queries 1880, Aug, 21, p. 143; Oct. 16, p. 305, by O, W. Tancock,

SPENCE (R. M.). A few notes on the Globe edition of Cymbeline.

Notes and Queries 1880, Jan. 17, p. 52-53; Jan. 31, p. 91-92.

STAPFER (Paul). Shakespeare and classical antiquity: Greek and Latin antiquity as presented in Shakespeare's plays. Translated by Emily J. Carey. London: Kegan Paul and Co., 1880. 8vo. pp. 492.

STODDARD (Richard Henry). Shakespeare portraits.
The Aldine. New York. May, 1872.

STONE (W. G.). Shakespeare, Cicero and Dante.
Notes and Queries 1879, Apr. 12, p. 286-87.

[Stratford-on-Avon]. Excavations in the church and church-yard of Strat

ford-on-Avon.

The Birmingham Daily Gazette, Decemb. 17, 1880.

[Stratford-on-Avon]. The amalgamated trusts of Shakespeare's birthplace, museum and New Place. 1880. For private circulation. [Annual report of the executive committee, laid before the trustees at their annual meeting, on May 5th, 1880.] 2 pages fol. [Stratford or Birmingham printed.]

STURGIS (Julian Russell). The Shakespeare-revival in London.
International Review. New York. June, 1879.

Third

SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles). A study of Shakespeare. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880 [1879]. 8vo. pp. (VIII), 309. Contents: First period: Lyric and phantastic." Second period: Comic and historic. period: Tragic and romantic. Appendix: I. Note on the historical play of King Edward the third. II. Report of the proceedings of the first anniversary session of the Newest ShakspereSociety. III. Additions and corrections.

For reviews see: The Academy, Jan. 3, 1880, by Edward Dowden. (On this article see: The
Academy, Jan. 10, 1880, papers by Mess. Swinburne and Furnivall; Jan. 17, a reply by Mr.
Dowden). Athenaeum, No. 2727, Jan. 31, 1880. Le Livre. Paris. Fevrier, 1880, by Arthur
O'Shaughnessy. Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes. Leipzig. 49. Jahrgang (1880),

No. 19, by Theod. Opitz.

SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles). A study of Shakespeare. New York: R. Worthington, 1880 [1879]. 12mo. pp. (VI), 319.

SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles). On the historical play of King Edward III.
Gentleman's Magazine. London. August and September, 1879.

SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles). Short notes on English poets [Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton.]

The Fortnightly Review. London. December, 1880.

TAYLOR (Bayard). Shakspeare.

Harper's Weekly. New York. June 8, 1872.

THOMAS (MOy). The elegy on Burbage [containing references to Hamlet].
The Academy. London. Jan. 25, 1879, p. 77.

THOMAS (Moy). Mr. Irving and Miss Ellen Terry at the Lyceum.

The Academy. London. Jan. 4, 1879, p. 17-18.

TURNER (Godfrey Wordsworth). Shakespeare made easy.

Tinsley's Magazine. London. August, 1877.

TYLER (Moses Coit). The direct study of English masterpieces. Shakespeare course. Subjects and references arranged for the use of seniors in the University of Michigan, electing English literature. Ann Arbor: Steehan and Co., 1877. 8vo. pp. 11.

TYLER (Thomas). The date of Shakespeare's fifty-fifth sonnet.

Athenaeum, No. 2759, Sept. 11, 1880, p. 337-8.

TYTLER (Thomas). The philosophy of Hamlet. London: Williams and Norgate, 1879. 8vo.

V. (F. J.). Choruses in Pericles.

Notes and Queries 1879, March 15, p. 204; Decemb. 6, p. 445, by R. M. Spence.

VAN WINKLE (Edward S.). The spelling of Shakespeare's name.
International Review. New York. Septemb., 1878.

VARAGNAC (Bérard). Shakespeare and the Baconian theory. [Translated from the 'Journal des Débats' June 21, 1878.]

Christian Register. Boston. July 6, 1878,