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C olleetanea. By Charles Crawford. Second Series. (Shake- speare Head

Press, Stratford-on-Avon. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains two essays reprinted from Notes and Queries. The first is an examination of the borrowings by Webster and Marston from Florio's translation of Montaigne ; the second deals with the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. In the latter Mr. Crawford makes good sport with certain Baconians. Of the conclusions at which he arrives, the first is that the Baconians ought to know more about Bacon and his contemporaries than they do, and that if Bacon was any one else than himself, he was Ben Jenson rather than Shakespeare.—From the same publishers we have also a reprint of A Cypress Grove, by William Drummond of Haw- thoraden, with a Prefatory Note by Mr. A. H. Bullen.