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 822 SHAKESPEARE ink, which professed to be more than 200 years old. Upon this announcement, in July, 1859, in the London "Times," a tierce discus- sion* arose, which continued for more than two years. It had for its subject not only the no- torious folio, but all the manuscripts which Mr. Collier had brought to the notice of the public as containing contemporary notices of Shakespeare or his works, nearly all of which were pronounced forgeries by the same high authorities which condemned the folio. So extensive and so important a literary fraud had never before been detected. Toward the end of the last century a scapegrace named William Ireland professed to have discovered miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shake- speare, which were outrageous forgeries ; but they were palpably spurious, and were quickly exposed, although they deceived many men of erudition for a time. The result of the exam- ination and discussion in Mr. Collier's case has been to leave him with a damaged reputa- tion both for judgment and veracity, his folio without a semblance of authority, and his manuscripts under the gravest suspicion, at the very least ; although his accusers have not succeeded in making out all their case. Most of the corrections in this folio seem to have been made about 1675; but there is evidence which goes strongly to show that Mr. Collier is responsible for some of them. See " An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annota- ted Shakespeare Folio, 1632, and of certain Shakespearian Documents likewise published by Mr. Collier," by N. E. S. A. Hamilton (4to, London, 1860) ; Mr. Collier's " Reply" to this volume (London, 1860); "A Complete View of the Shakespeare Controversy," &c., by C. Mansfield Ingleby, LL. D., with numerous fac- similes (8vo, London, 1861); and a thorough examination of the whole subject in "The Shakespeare Mystery," an article by R. Grant White in the "Atlantic Monthly" (Boston) for September, 1861. Books upon themes di- rectly or indirectly connected with Shake- speare multiply so fast that a complete list of them must be sought in the professed cata- logues of Shakespeariana ; but among the more recent the following deserve special mention : " A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of the 4 Two Noble Kinsmen,' " by W. Spalding (8vo, Edinburgh, 1833) ; " Shakespeare's Puck and his Folk Lore," by William Bell (3 vols. 16mo, London, 1852-'64); "Remarks on the Differences of Shakespeare's Versification in Different Periods of his Life," by C. Bathurst (8vo, London, 1857); "A New Exegesis of Shakespeare and Interpretation of his Plays on the Principle of Races," (8vo, Edinburgh, 1859); "On the Received Text of Shake- speare's Dramatic Writings," by Samuel Bailey (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1862-'6); "Shakespeare no Deer Stealer," by C. Holte Bracebridge (8vo, London, 1862) ; "A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets," by C. Barnstoff, translated from the German by T. J. Graham (8vo, London, 1862); " Skakespeare's Home at New Place," by J. C. M. Bellew (8vo, London, 1863); " Shakespeare Commentaries," by G. G. Ger- vinus, translated from the German by F. E. Bunnett (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1863; 2d ed., with a valuable introduction on the study of Shakespeare by F. J. Furnivall, 1 vol., 1875) ; "An Historical Account of New Place," by J. O. Halliwell (privately printed, fol., Lon- don, 1864) ; Shakespeare jest books (under various titles), edited by W. Carew Hazlitt (3 vols. 16mo, London, 1864); "On Shake- speare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible," by Charles Wordsworth (8vo, London, 1864) ; "Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators," by W. R. Arrowsmith (8vo, London, 1865) ; " Shakespeare in Germany," by Albert Cohn (4to, London, 1865) ; " Notices of the Drama, . . . chiefly in the 16th and 17th Centuries," by William Kelly (8vo, London, 1865) ; " Me- moirs of the Life of William Shakespeare, with an Essay toward the Expression of his Genius," &c., by R. Grant White (8vo, Boston, 1865) ; " Shakespeare's Delineations of Insan- ity," &c., by A. O. Kellogg (16mo, London, 1866) ; " Shakespeare's Sonnets never before Interpreted," by Gerald Massey (8vo, London, 1866; enlarged ed. of only 100 copies, with the title " The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Son- nets Unfolded," 1872) ; " On Early English Pro- nunciation, with especial reference to Shake- speare and Chaucer," by Alexander J. Ellis (3 vols. 8vo, London, 1867 et eq.) ; " The Au- thorship of Shakespeare," by Nathaniel Holmes (12mo, New York, 1867); "The Mad Folk of Shakespeare," by John Charles Bucknill (12mo, London, 1867); "The Shakespeare Expositor, an Aid to the perfect Understanding of Shake- speare's Plays," by Thomas Keightly (16mo, London, 1867) ; " An Introduction to the Phi- losophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets," by Richard Simpson (16mo, London, 1868); "A Shake- spearian Grammar," by E. A. Abbott (16mo, London, 1869; 2d ed., 1871); " Genealogica Shakespeariana," by George Russel French (8vo, London and Cambridge, 1869) ; " On the Authorship of Works attributed to Shake- speare," by C. Mansfield Ingleby (8vo, Lon- don, 1869); "Notes and Conjectural Emen- dations," &c., by P. A. Daniel (8vo, London, 1870) ; "The Sonnets of Shakespeare Solved," by Henry Brown (8vo, London, 1870); "In- dex to the Pages of William Sidney Walker," by Mrs. Horace Howard Furness (50 copies privately printed, 16mo, Philadelphia, 1870); " The Method of Shakespeare as an Artist," by Henry J. Ruggles (16mo, New York, 1870) ; "Shakespeare and Topography," by William Blades (8vo, London, 1872) ; " New Readings in Shakespeare," by Robert Cartwright (8vo, London, 1873) ; " Caliban, the Missing Link," by Daniel Wilson (8vo, London, 1873); " Body and Mind, an Inquiry into their Connection and mutual Influence, specially in reference