22 APRIL 1865, Page 22

ingenuity to explaining that they have given to correcting what

they did not understani, they would have been saved a deal of trouble and many blunders. We think most critics now agree with him. But though his explanations of doubtful passages are often sound and always ingenious, they certainly convict tho poet of very great obscurity of diction, obscurity even greater than one finds in his contemporaries. We believe that he is really open to this charge, but sometimes never- theless the printers of the first folio are probably to blame. We do not, however, believe it possible to determine accurately when the fault is the poet's, the editor's, or the printer's. Anyhow the text is best let alone. Emendations should be confined to the notes.