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The object of this work is to furnish students of Shakespeare and Bacon with a short systematic account of some points of difference between Eliza&shy;bethan ''syntax and our own. A section on Prosody is added, and Notes'' ''and Questions. The success which has attended the First and Second'' Editions of the “,” and the demand for a Third Edition within a year of the publication of the First, have encouraged the author to endeavour to make the work somewhat more useful, and to render it, as far as possible, a complete book of reference for all difficulties of ''Shakespearian syntax or prosody. For this purpose the whole of Shake&shy;speare'' has been re-read, and an attempt has been made to include within this Edition the explanation of every idiomatic difficulty that comes within ''the province of a grammar as distinct from a glossary. The great object'' being to make a useful book of reference for students, and especially for classes in schools, several Plays have been indexed so fully that with the aid of a glossary and historical notes the references will serve for a complete com&shy;mentary. “A critical inquiry, conducted with great skill and knowledge, ''and with all the appliances of modern philology .... We venture to believe'' that those who consider themselves most proficient as Shakespearians will find something to learn from its pages.” —. “Valuable not only as an aid to the critical study of Shakespeare, but as tending to familiarize the reader with Elizabethan English in general.” —.

This little book consists of the notes of a number of simple lessons on sanitary subjects given to a class in a National School, and listened to