ed scene, "His nose was as sharp as a pen
and a' babbled of green fields." The previous texts had given "and a
table of green fields." Pope had said that this nonsense crept in from
the name of the property man who was named Greenfield, and thus there
must have been a stage direction here,--"Bring in a table of
Greenfield's."

Theobald's edition was followed in 1744 by Thomes Hanmer's edition in
six volumes. Hanmer was a country gentleman, but not much of a scholar.

Warburton's edition followed in 1747. In 1765 appeared {129} Samuel
Johnson's long-delayed edition in eight volumes. Aside from a few
common-sense explanations, the edition is not of much merit.

Tyrwhitt's edition in 1766 was followed by a reprint of twenty of the
early quartos by George Steevens in the same year. Two years later
came the edition of Edward Capell, the greatest scholarly work since
Theobald's. In this edition was the first rigorous comparison between
the readings of the folios and the quartos. His quartos, now in the
British Museum, are of the greatest value to Shakespeare scholars.
With his edition begins the tendency to get back to the earliest form
of the text and not to try to improve Shakespeare to the ideal of what
the editor thinks Shakespeare should have said.

In 1773 Johnson's edition was revised by Steevens, and _Pericles_ was
readmitted. This was a valuable but crotchety edition. In 1790 Edmund
Malone published his famous edition in ten volumes. No Shakespearean
scholar ranks higher than he in reputation. Numerous editions followed
up to 1865, of which the most important is James Boswell's so-called
Third _Variorum_ in twenty-one volumes. In 1855-1861 was published J.
O. Halliwell's edition in fifteen volumes, which contains enormous
masses of antiquarian material.

In 1853 appeared the forgeries of J. P. Collier, to which reference is
made elsewhere.

In 1854-1861 appeared the edition in Germany of N. Delius. The Leopold
Shakespeare, 1876, used Delius's text.

In 1857-1865 appeared the first good American edition of R. G. White.
It contained many original suggestions. Between 1863 and 1866 appeared
the edition of Clark and Wright, known as the Cambridge edition. Mr.
W. Aldis Wright, now the dean of living Shakespearean scholars, is
chiefly responsible for this text. It was reprinted with a few changes
into the Globe edition, and is still the chief popular text.

Prof. W. A. Neilson's single volume in t