1 SEPTEMBER 1888, Page 23

We have received the first volume of The Bankside Shakespeare.

Edited by Appleton Morgan. (Shakespeare Society of New York.) —This volume contains The Merry Wives of Windsor. The growth of the play is carefully discussed, and much attention has been paid to the text. The two forms of the comedy are given on opposite pages. One cannot help thinking that the fun of the thing is apt to evaporate in the midst of this laborious analysis.