ore us the amount of merchandise brought from
the East; and the writer dwells with enthusiasm on the liberality of the
Company, and shows how new channels have been opened for industry. One
extract will be enough:--

Nor doe our marchants tradinge into Spayne,
The _Streights_, to _Venice_, _Lisbon_ or the like,
Give entertaynment unto novices
Which have not some experience of the sea.
But when all doors of Charitie are shutt
The _East India_ gates stand open, open wide,
To entertayne the needie & the poore
With good accomodation. Two monthes paye
They have before hand for to make provision,
Needfull provision for so longe a voyage,
And two monthes paye theyr wives are yearely payd
The better to mayntayne theyr poore estate
Duringe the discontinuance of theyr husbands.
Yf in the voyage he doe chance to [MS. doe] dye
The widowe doth receave whatere's found due,
Yf not by will disposed otherwise;
Which often happeneth to be such a sume
As they togeather never sawe the like.
And when did any of these widowes begge
For mayntenaunce in Churches as some doe?
_Blackwall_ proclaymes theyr bountie; _Lymehouse_ speakes
(Yf not ingrate) their liberalitie;
_Ratcliffe_ cannot complayne nor _Wapping_ weepe,
Nor _Shadwell_ crye agaynst theyr niggardnes.
No, they doe rather speake the contrary
With acclamations to the highest heavens.

APPENDIX II.

The following note is by Mr. Robert Boyle, of St. Petersburg, a
Shakespearian scholar, whose name is well known to readers of the
_Anglia_ and the _New Shakspere Society's Transactions_. Mr. Boyle, who
has a close acquaintance with Massinger, on seeing the proof-sheets of
_Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_, pointed out several repetitions of
expressions used in other plays of Massinger. It will be understood that
I do not adopt Mr. Boyle's conclusions unreservedly. Possibly in an
Appendix to Vol. IV. I may return to a consideration of _Barnavelt_, but
the present volume has already swollen beyond its limits.

_Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_.

This play, the most valuable Christmas present English scholars have for
half a century received, appears indubitably to belong to the Massinger
and Fletcher series. Even a cursory glance will convince the reader that
it is one of the greatest treasures of our dramatic literature. That
such a gem should lie in manuscript for over 200