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Rh but they can, I believe, all be explained within the limits of the general rule. Dr. Chambers' disregard of transfers obscures this important point. And similarly, when a play is printed "for" a stationer, it is he and not the printer who is the responsible party. Dr. Chambers does not appear to have grasped this, nor am I sure that he has quite accurately apprehended the nature of registration. At least, since Roberts neither printed nor published the 1603 Hamlet, I can attach no meaning to the statement that "it must have been covered by his entry of 1602."

Chapter XXIII., which fills well over 300 pages, is a biobibliographical dictionary of "Playwrights," while the final Chapter XXIV. treats in a similar manner the "Anonymous Work." Needless to say, they are both of the very first importance. Dr. Chambers disclaims "minute bibliographical erudition," but he has assimilated the facts with his habitual thoroughness and presents them in a workmanlike form. The difficulty of ensuring that such a mass of information shall be uniformly up to date and accurate is formidable, and the general success remarkable; if there are occasional lapses they are, so far as I can judge, neither frequent nor important. As points archaeologically interesting I may observe that the anonymous issue of Marston's Works, 1633, is the later—cancels were supplied throughout with a view to removing all trace of authorship. Also Dr. Chambers treats the issue of Day's Isle of Gulls, 1606, with a publisher's name as the later—wrongly I think—with the result that the publisher does not figure in Appendix L., and the publication has an anomalous appearance. The title of one play of which a "plot" is extant is given as "The First parte of Tamar Cham." It is "Tamar Cam" in Steevens' transcript, a spelling supported by Henslowe's "tamber came": this error persists throughout these volumes. Also I must protest against being made responsible for the statement that the third quarto of Every Man out of his Humour was printed from the first. Dr. Chambers, by the way, does not accept Munday's authorship of the fragmentary Camp-Bell pageant, but I understand from Miss St. Clare Byrne, our chief Munday authority, that the published records of the Ironmongers' Company clearly show it to be his.

A question variously touched on is the date at which different writers began the year. They certainly differ in their record of performances, and a general discussion of the question would have