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CONTENTS. 



Sliakspeare and Marlowe, by Samuel Hickson - 



A Plan for a Church. History Society 



Burnet as a Historian - . . . 



Epigrams from Buchanan _ _ _ 



Mistakes about George Chapman the Poet, by Dr. E. F. 



Riirrbault . . - . . 



Minor Notes : — ^hak.speare and George Herbert — Old 

 Dan Tucker — Lord John Townsend — Croker's Bos- 

 well — Misquotation — Tindal's New Testament — 

 The Term " Organ-blower " — " Singular " and 

 " Unique '* ...... 



Qderies : — 



Early Poetry, &c.. Five Bibliogmphical Queries re- 

 specting ....... 



Minor Queries : — History of Newspapers — Steele's 

 Bur'al-place—Socinian Boast — Descent of Edward JV. 



— Viscount Castlecomer — Judge Cradock, after- 

 wards Newton — Totness Church — Meaning of 

 "Harissers" — Ringelbergius : Drinking to Excess 



— Langue Pandras — The Coptic Language — 

 Cheshire Cat — Mrs. Paitington — Cognation of the 

 Jews and Lacedemooiana .... 



Replies : — 



Fairfax's Translation of Tasso .... 



Small Words -..,.. 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Concolinel— Wife of the 

 Poet Bilderdijk—Schweickhardt the .Artist — Nob me 

 tangere — Chimney Money — Passage from Burke — 



Nicholas Assheton's Journal — Scotch Prisoners 



Long Friday — Bradshaw Family — Julin, the 

 Drowned City — Dodsley's Poems — Shunamitis 

 Poenia — Jeremy T.iylor's Works — D ictor Duhi- 

 tantium — Ai?rostation — Gwyn's London and West- 

 minster — " Regis ad Kxemplum totus componitur 

 Orbis " — St. Uncumber, &c. - . . . 



MiSCELLANBOI'S : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wajited 

 Nf»ti<'i's to (Correspondents . . - 



AdvcrtiseiuuDts .... 



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SHAKSPEARB AND MAHLOWE. 



A^ .special use of, a use, indeed, tliat gives a 

 si^ecial value to your publication, is the coniinu- 

 nicatioti through its means of facts and conclusions 

 for the information or assistance of editors or in- 

 tending editors. I do not suppose that any gen- 

 tleman occupying tiiis position would be guilty of 

 80 much disrespect to the many eminent names 

 whii:h have already appeared in your columns, as 

 would be implied in not giving all the attention it 

 deservi'd to any communication you might see fit 

 to publish ; and with this feeling, and under this 



shelter, T return to the subject of Marlowe, and 

 his position as a dramatic writer relative to Shak- 

 speare. I perceive that a re-issue of Mr. Knight's 

 S/iakspeare has conniieiiced, and from the terms of 

 the announcement, independently of other consi- 

 siderations, I conclude that the editor will take 

 advantage of this opportunity of referring to 

 doubtful or disputed points that may have made 

 any advance towards a solution since his previous 

 editions. 1 have read also an advertisement of an 

 edition of Sliakspeare, to be superintended by 

 Mr. Halliwell*, which is to contain th-e plays of 

 " doubtful authenticity, or in the composition of 

 which Shakspeare is supposed only to have taken 

 a part." Neither of these gentlemen can well 

 avoid expressing an opinion on the subject I have 

 adverted to, and to them m,ore especially I would 

 address my observations. 



I think 1 have observed that the claims of 

 Marlowe have been maintained with something 

 very like party spirit. I have seen latterly se- 

 veral indications of this, unmistakeable, though 

 expressed, perhaps, but by a single word. Now 

 it is true both Mr. Collier and Mr. Dyce are com- 

 mitted to a positive opinion on this subject; and 

 it would be unreasonable to e.xpect either of those 

 gentlemen to ch.ange their views, except with the 

 fullest proof and after the maturest consideration. 

 But who, besides these, is interested in maintain- 

 ing the precedence of Marlowe ? These remarks 

 have been called forth by an article in the Athe- 

 TKEum, containing the following passages : — 



" All Marlowe's works were produced prior, we may 

 safely assert, to the appearance of Shakspeare as a 

 writer for the stage, or ;is an autlior, in print. 



" It is now universally admitted among competent 

 critics, that Shakspeare commenced his career as a 

 drainatic author, by remodelling certain pieces written 



* This communication was written and in our hands 

 before the appearance of Mr. Halliwell's advertisement 

 and letter to The Times, announcing tliat the edition of 

 Shakspeare advertised as to be edited by him and prib- 

 llshcd by the Messrs. Tallis, is only a reprint of an 

 edition, witli Notes and Introductions l)y Mr. Halliwell, 

 which was commenced at New York some months 

 ago Eu. 



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