Notes on Books, &c. Dr. Greg's recension of the play is so thorough and searching that it cannot be disregarded by any future editor. We congratulate him on a piece of work which must have cost him a large amount of time and labour. The modern and expert Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602. Clarendon Press.) THIS is a recent edition to that "Tudor and Stuart Library" which is one of the most attractive, both in contents and appearance, of the many series with which the Oxford Press tempts the scholar. Dr. Greg is responsible for a Bibliographical and Critical Introduction, Appendixes, and notes. These are concerned, not with æsthetic considerations (such as the comparison of Falstaff's character here and elsewhere), but with the perplexing texts of the play. We have two main authorities-the Quarto of 1602, and the Folio of 1623. Here Dr. Greg reprints the Quarto, and compares both generally and in detail the readings given by each. He discusses the views of the late H. C. Hart and Mr. P. A. Daniel, and puts forward his own with great ability. He considers that we have to bear in mind (1) garbling by a reporter of the play as performed on the stage; (2) cutting, and possibly rewriting, for acting purposes, by a stage adapter; (3) working over by an authorized reviser of the original text (underlying the Quarto), and the production of a new version (substantially that of the Folio text). As for the reporter, Dr. Greg shows that his task was not so difficult as might be imagined by his own experience of reporting and writing a tolerable text of a play of Mr. Shaw's. This reporter who was responsible for the Quarto text was, Dr. Greg suggests, the actor who played the part of Mine Host, for the speeches of that part are reported with very unusual accuracy. The notes after the text show a laudable reluctance to consent to conjectures, however specious, where the Quarto and Folio readings agree. When Slender says (1. 110 of the Quarto) of a Fencer" that "he hot my shin," he is using a past tense of "hit" which we have often heard in Shakespeare's country. There are notes on two well-known difficulties, ""gongarian " and "garmombles," neither of which, we note, appears in the 'N.E.D.' As for the former, until Steevens's quotation from one of the old bombast plays" which he "forgot to note" has been discovered, comment, as Dr. ،، results. The Little Guides. Staffordshire. By Charles Masefield. With 32 Illustrations, 2 Plans, and 2 Maps. The Channel Islands. By E. E. Bicknell. With 32 Illustrations and 5 Maps. (Methuen & Co.) a WISE reviewers always keep their copies of "The Little Guides," if they can, for this series is at once thorough, sound in information, and practical. The alphabetical arrangement gives ready means of access to the detail desired, when the facts will be found set out distinctly, and without the parade of verbiage which disfigures most guide-books. The present reviewer has used many volumes of the series with advantage, and always asks for them when he does not possess them. Details which concern the historian or archæologist as opposed to the ordinary tourist are not lacking, and there are signs everywhere of that personal knowledge which is essential for real help to the traveller. The maps are thoroughly useful. A few trifles in names need amending. Both writers very sensibly ask for corrections, and in the case of the Channel Islands it would not be a bad scheme, we think, to put the little book on the boats which ply backwards and forwards from England, and ask for criticism from passengers. Greg sensibly remarks, is useless. As for the other spondents must observe the following rules. Let odd word, Dr. Greg regards the passage in which it occurs as unoriginal, and a substitution for a more elaborate scene which had to be cut out. So if garmombles" is not a wild blunder, ،، it does not belong to the original text, but is "a sly allusion to the censored episode introduced by the actor (an Elizabethan Pelissier) for the benefit of an audience familiar with current dramatic scandal." This must certainly be the first appearance of the leader of "The Follies" in serious criticism. Neither the Folio nor the Quarto gives such an ending to the play in the last act as we might expect from Shakespeare. That is the view of Dr. Greg, and of other critics; or, if the work is Shakespeare's, it "has almost disappeared under a twofold revision by a greatly inferior playwright." each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. 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