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ing Garment.1 Mr S. Christie-Miller allowd the reprinting of his unique copy of A Mournfull Dittie: and these, with many selections from other books, were edited by Dr Ingleby as Part I of the Society's Shakspere Allusion-Books. Owing to an unlucky omission to send the proofs of Gabriel Harvey's Third Letter to Mr Simpson, this Letter, which does not refer to Shakspere (but does to Nash), was included in the AllusionBooks; but still the Letter has an independent value of its own as an illustration of the time and the contemporaries of Shakspere.

Besides Prince Leopold's gift of the Parallel-Text Quartos of Romeo and Juliet to every Member of the Society, the Committee receivd from Dr Ingleby 372 copies of his Still Lion, and from Mr Furnivall 500 copies of his Introduction to Gervinus ("The Succession of Shakspere's Plays and the use of Metrical Tests in settling it"), which were distributed among the Members of the Society.

The Committee desire to record their gratification, that the first public act of a son of the Queen of England has been the worthy one of giving a valuable Parallel-Text of Shakspere's first Tragedy to the Members of the New Shakspere Society; and they wish publicly to thank Prince Leopold for his princely act.

To the other donors to, and workers for, the Society, the Committee's thanks are due, and are gladly and warmly

renderd.

§3. The results of the Society's first year's work are most encouraging. It has led the revival of interest in Shakspere that the theatres and press bear witness to; it has enrolld nearly

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These the Director read in proof and revise with the originals.

Mr Horace Howard Furness of Philadelphia, the editor of the admirable new Variorum Shakspere now in progress, gave us ten guineas towards foundation-expenses. Mr Charles Childs, our printer, has been most kind and liberal in his treatment of us.

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6 § 3. Results of our first year's Work. § 4. Publications for 1875. 450 Members; it has establisht Branch Societies, and helpt to form many reading parties; it has issued four Texts, besides the three presented to it; it has forc't on the notice of the English public that most powerful and useful instrument in Shakspere criticism, "Metrical Tests"; it has made known to this generation the genuine and spurious parts of Henry VIII., The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles, and perhaps The Shrew and Timon; it has re-opend the question of Shakspere's Politics and the Political use of the stage in his time; it has gone far to establish the genuineness of the Porter-scene in Macbeth; it has publisht the Parallel-Texts of Romeo and Juliet, and the separate Quartos of 1597 and 1599, besides some very rare Allusion-books; it has procurd the publication of a new and cheaper edition of the Englisht Gervinus, and the issue of a cheap edition of Singer's Shakspere, &c. Its members Mr Halliwell and Prof. Dowden have publisht valuable works on Shakspere.

It wants but an increast list of Members, and more workers with good heads, to ensure its lasting success.

§ 4. For 1875 the Committee have already issued,

In Series II, Plays:-Mr P. A. Daniel's revised edition of Romeo and Juliet (based on the Quarto of 1599), with an Introduction, and full critical notes on the Text.

Henry V a. Facsimile Reprints of the Quarto and First Folio, edited by Dr Brinsley Nicholson.

In Series I, Transactions :-Part II of the Transactions for 1874, completing the volume. Part I of the Transactions for 1875-6.

Mr J. O. Halliwell has been good enough to present to the Society 600 copies of Mr A. H. Paget's pamphlet, "Shakespeare's Plays: a Chapter of Stage History," 1875; and one has been sent to every Member.

The Subscriptions at present paid are not enough to justify any further issue of Texts during 1875; but if suffi

cient money comes in, one or both of the two next-namd publications will be sent out :

In Series II, Plays:-Henry V, b. Parallel-Texts' of the Quarto and First Folio, arranged so as to show their differences; c. a revised edition of the Play, with Introduction, Notes, and Parallel Passages from Halle's and Holinshed's Chronicles, the whole edited by Brinsley Nicholson, M.D.

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In Series III, Originals and Analogues :-Part I. a, The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar[thur] Br[ooke], 1562; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq.; b. The goodly hystory of the true and constant loue between Rhomeo and Julietta; from Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 1567; edited by P. A. Daniel, Esq.

The following works are in the Press :

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In Series II, Plays:-The Two Noble Kinsmen, by Shakspere and Fletcher; a. Facsimile Reprint of the First Quarto, with collations of the Second; b. a revised edition, with Introduction, Notes, and separate Glossaries of Shakspere's and of Fletcher's words; the whole edited by Harold Littledale, Esq., Trinity College, Dublin.

Cymbeline, edited, with Introduction and Notes, by W. J. Craig, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.

Series VI. Shakspere's England. William Harrison's Description of England, 1577, 1586; edited from its two Versions by F. J. Furnivall, M.A.

§ 5. The number of Texts issued in the year depends wholly on the exertions of Members in getting more Subscribers to the Society.1 A Society to promote the study of

1 It must be rememberd that the Society's work includes that of two Societies one for discussion, and for publication of Transactions, and another for Reprints-and therefore needs double the income of a Society with one function, say £1000 a year.

SHAKSPERE, and to provide the best helps for that study, has a right to expect the support of every English man and woman with a yearly guinea to spare. There is no question here of antiquarianism, as there is with the Early English Text or any like Society. Every one who can read, can read SHAKSPERE: every one who can feel patriotism, knows that a wide intelligent study of Shakspere must be a national benefit. The Society which is founded to further this study is doing à good work for England; and its Members should not hesitate to appeal to every friend and acquaintance for help, in money and energy, to carry on the work.

Subscriptions should be paid when they are due, on the first of the year, to enable the Committee to settle soon what Texts they can bring out during the year. Members with banking accounts should sign an Order on their bankers for payment of their yearly subscriptions. A form of Order is sent to every Member with this Report. This plan saves all trouble both to Members and to the Honorary Secretary. The Society's Texts are sent out by its agent, Mr Hodsoll, School-Press, 22, Gower's Walk, Commercial Road, London, E.; and all complaints as to non-delivery of books should be made to him.

§ 6. Prizes. To encourage the study of Shakspere, and bring the Society's work under the notice of students, the Committee propose to follow the example of the Early English Text Society, and give yearly to a certain number of the more important Colleges and Schools in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, some of the Society's completed publications. To this gift H.R.H. Prince Leopold will add a copy of Mr Daniel's Parallel-Text edition of Romeo & Juliet. Prizes have already been promist to the following schools and Colleges :

Annapolis, St John's Coll., Maryland, U.S.A.: Prof. Garnett.
Baltimore City College, U.S.A.: Prof. Shepherd.

Bedford, Grammar School: Rev. G. W. Phillpotts, Head-Master.

Belfast, Queen's College: Prof. Yonge.

Berlin: Prof. Herrig's Academy.

Bonn: Prof. Delius's Classes.

California University, U.S.A.: Prof. Edw. R. Sill.

Cork, Queen's College: Prof. Armstrong.

Dublin, Trinity College: Prof. Dowden.
Galway, Queen's College: Prof. Moffatt.
Iowa University, U.S.A.: Prof. Barnes.

Ithaca, Cornell University, U.S.A.: Prof. H. Corson.
London, City of London School: Rev. Dr Abbott.

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Cowper-St. Middle-Class School: H. C. Bowen, Esq., English
Master.

King's College Evening Classes.

King's College School: J. W. Hales, Esq., English Lecturer.
University College: Prof. Hy. Morley.

School: E. R. Horton, Esq., Vice-Master.

Manchester, Grammar School: Rev. F. Walker, Head-Master.
Owen's College: Prof. Ward.

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Evening Classes: Dr Ernest Adams.

Mill Hill School: Dr R. F. Weymouth.

Mississippi, University of, U.S.A.: Prof. J. Lipscomb Johnson.
Norwich School: Rev. Dr Jessopp.

Philadelphia, Lafayette College, U.S.A.: Prof. March.

St Andrew's University, Fife: Prof. Baynes.

Strassburg: Prof. B. Ten-Brink's Classes.

and the Committee are willing to receive applications from more bodies of the kind.

Early English Text Society (Subscription, one Guinea a year for the Original Series, and one Guinea for the Extra Series); Chaucer Society (two Guineas a year); Ballad Society (one Guinea a year): Hon. Sec., Arthur G. Snelgrove, Esq., London Hospital, E.

English Dialect Society (10s. 6d. a year): Director and Hon. Sec., the Rev. W. W. Skeat, 1, Cintra Terrace, Cambridge.

Philological Society (one Guinea a year, and one Guinea entrance): Hou. Sec., F. J. Furnivall, Esq., 3, St George's Square, Primrose Hill, N.W. Paleographical Society for facsimiles of Manuscripts (one Guinea a year): Hon. Sec., E. Maunde Thompson, Esq., British Museum, London, W.C. Spenser Society for Elizabethan Reprints (two Guineas a year): Agents, Messrs Simms, Printers, Manchester.

Hunterian Club for Elizabethan and Scotch Reprints (two Guineas a year): Hon. Sec., Alexander Smith, Esq., Laurelbank Place, Shawlands, Glasgow. Arber's Elizabethan and other English Reprints: Mr E. Arber, Bowes, Southgate, London, N.

Edward III. (much of which Mr Tennyson and others attribute to Shakspere) can be had in the Tauchnitz 5 Doubtful Plays of Shakspere, at 1s. 6d., paper covers, or 2s. 6d. cloth, gilt edges.

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