He that will understand Shakespeare must not be content to study him in the closet, he must look for his meaning sometimes among the sports of the field DR JOHNSON.

IN bringing out a new and less costly issue of this work, I have sacrificed somewhat of the comeliness of the former edition in order to render it accessible to a larger number of students of Shakespeare.

Some additions have been made to the notes.

Frequent references will be found to the Master of Game, the earliest English treatise on the art of venery, which remained in Ms until the year 1904, when it was printed with a version in modern English by Mr andMrs Baillie-Grohman.

The notes to this sumptuous volume are a mine of learning, the richness of which can best be estimated by those who have been compelled to delve elsewhere in search of information on old-world sport.