COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT: DIRECTOR: FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, ESQ. TREASURER: HENRY B. WHEATLEY, ESQ. HON. SEC.: ARTHUR G. SNELGROVE, ESQ., LONDON HOSPITAL, LONDON, E. J. MEADOWS COWPER, ESQ. HENRY HUCKS GIBBS, ESQ. REV. DR. RICHARD MORRIS. (With power to add Workers to their number.) BANKERS: THE HEAD OFFICE OF THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, PUBLISHERS: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL, E.C. THE Early English Text Society was started in 1864 for the purpose of bringing within the reach of the many the hitherto inaccessible treasures of Old English literature, and of clearing England from the reproach under which she has so long rested of caring little for the monuments of her early language and life. During the ten years of its existence the Society has been successful in issuing to its subscribers a large number of Texts illustrating the language, the history, the belief, and the habits of our ancestors. 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NODAL, Esq., The Grange, Heaton Moor, near Stockport. Treasurer: GEORGE MILNER, Esq., 59A, Mosley Street, Manchester (to whom subscriptions of Members in and near Manchester may be paid). THE OWEN'S COLLEGE, MANCHESTER, Hon. Sec., C. H. HERFORD, Esq. BEDFORD, President, J. S. PHILLPOTTS, Esq., M. A., Bedfordshire Middle-Class Public School. Hon. Sec., ROWLAND HILL, Junr., Esq., 14, Adelaide Square, Bedford. BIRKENHEAD, Hon. Sec., HENRY SCOTT, Esq., Fernleigh. LONDON: The Sunday Shakspere Society. President: F. J. FURNIVALL, Esq., M.A. Treas. Mr W. STAFFORD. Hon. Secs.: Mrs J. H. SIMPSON & Mr MARK H. JUDGE, 256, High Holborn, W.C. DUBLIN, Hon. Sec., Prof. E. DOWDEN, LL.D., 50, Wellington Road. EDINBURGH, Presidents, Prof. BLACKIE, M.A., Prof. MASSON, M.A., LL.D., and SAMUEL NEIL, Esq. Hon. Sec., JOHN WILSON, Esq., 1, Randolph Place. MONTREAL, CANADA, Hon. Sec., THOMAS D. KING, Esq., 26, Beaver Hall. General Hon. Sec. for the United States: Prof. F. J. CHILD, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (to whom Subscriptions may be paid). Hon. Sec. for Canada: THOMAS D. KING, Esq., 26, Beaver Hall, Montreal. LIST OF PAPERS READ AT THE NEW SHAKSPERE SOCIETY'S MEETINGS, AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GOWER ST, W.C., FROM OCTOBER, 1874, TO JUNE, 1875. Friday, October 9. The Politics of Shakspere's Historical Plays; by Richard Simpson, Esq., B.A. Friday, November 13. The 'Weak Endings' of Shakspere, in relation to the Chronology of his Plays; by Professor J. K. Ingram, LL.D., Trin. Coll. Dublin. Friday, December 11. I. On Hamlet's inserted Speech of "; a dozen or sixteen lines," Friday, February 12. I. On the Comedies of Mucedorus and Fair Em; by Richard Simpson, Esq., B.A. II. A Letter to the Director on a New Metrical Test (that of the mid-line end of speeches) for ascertaining the Chronology of Shakspere's Plays ; by Prof. J. K. Ingram, LL.D. III. Notes on German Shakspere Literature; by Prof. E. Dowden, LL.D. IV. On Characteristics of Ben Jonson (Extracts from a Lecture); by E. H. Pickersgill, Esq., B.A. Friday, March 12. I. On the Date of Julius Cæsar; by J. W. Hales, Esq., M.A. II. On Shakspere's correct use of the Expression "Evening Mass" in Romeo and Juliet; by Richard Simpson, Esq., B.A. III. On the literal use of the word “sea” in the phrase "sea of troubles" (in Hamlet). Friday, April 9. I. On the Bond Story (Merch. of Venice); by Miss L. Toulmin Smith. II. On the Quarto and Folio of King Lear; by Prof. Delius. III. On the corrected edition of Richard III.; by J. Spedding, Esq., M.A. Friday, May 14. I. On the Date of King John; by Brinsley Nicholson, Esq., M.D. II. On the Old Hamlets; by R. Simpson, Esq., B.A. Friday, June 11. On the Originals of Shakspere's Plots; by Henry B. Wheatley, Esq. Offers of other Papers and of Scraps are desired, and should be made to Mr Furnivall, 3, St George's Square, Primrose Hill, London, N.W. The Committee can appoint the 4th Friday of any month for the reading of any extra Paper that they approve. |