those whose notes were communicated to or collected by various
editors from Johnson to Boswell, the best known names are the following:
Sir William Blackstone, Dr Burney, Bennet Langton, Collins the poet, Sir
J. Hawkins, Musgrave, the editor of _Euripides_, Dr Percy, editor of the
_Reliques_, and Thomas Warton. Less known names are: Blakeway,
J. Collins, Henley, Holt White, Letherland, Roberts, Seward, Smith,
Thirlby, Tollet, and Whalley[14].

Harness's edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, appeared in 1825.

Of the comments published separately during the present century the
principal are:

1. _Remarks, &c._, by E. H. Seymour, 2 vols, 8vo, 1805, in which are
incorporated some notes left by Lord Chedworth.

2. _Shakspeare's himself again_, by Andrew Becket, 2 vols, 8vo. 1815.
The author has indulged in a license of conjecture and of interpretation
which has never been equalled before or since. We have nevertheless
generally given his conjectures, except when he has gone the length of
inventing a word.

3. _Shakspeare's Genius Justified_, by Zachary Jackson, 1 vol. 8vo,
1811. As the author himself had been a printer, his judgement on the
comparative likelihood of this and that typographical error is worth all
consideration. But he sometimes wanders 'ultra crepidam[15].'

Douce's _Illustrations to Shakespeare_, 2 vols. 8vo, 1807, ought to be
mentioned as a work of great antiquarian research, though he rarely
suggests any new alteration of the text, and his name therefore will
seldom occur in our notes.

The more recent editions of Shakespeare are so well known and so easily
accessible, that it is unnecessary for us, even were it becoming in this
place, to undertake the invidious task of comparing their respective
merits.

It will suffice to mention the names of the editors in the order of
their first editions: S. W. Singer, Charles Knight, Barry Cornwall,
J. Payne Collier, S. Phelps, J. O. Halliwell, Alex. Dyce, Howard
Staunton.

We have also to mention the edition of Delius, 7 vols. 8vo, Elberfeld,
1854-61, the English text, with concise notes, critical and explanatory,
in German, and that of Mr Richard Grant White (known as the author of
_Shakespeare's Scholar_, 1854), published at Boston, United States,
1857.

In 1853, Mr J. Payne Collier, published in 1 vol. 8vo, _Notes and
Emendations to the text of Shakespeare's Plays, from early manuscript
corrections, in a copy of the Folio 1632_, in his own possession. All
the