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Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Edward Dowden. (Methuen and Co.

3s. 6d.)—Professor Dowden's knowledge and tact as an editor are too well known to need our commendation. He thinks the play an early one, on account of the character of the versifi- cation, as well as of the inferiority of some of the writing. In dealing with the text he is commonly conservative. The appendix exhibits some serious variations between the accepted text and that of the quarto of 1597.