25 JUNE 1904, Page 41

Shakespeare Documents. Collated and Arranged by D. H. Lambert, B.A.

(G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—The " Documents " reach a number for which one is hardly prepared,—one hundred and sixty-one. But then Mr. Lambert has included, and that, we think, quite rightly, title-pages of books, and testimonia. from con- temporaries; some of the latter are particularly interesting. There is no doubt that Shakespeare's own age appreciated him better than that which followed. It was the incubus of the Stuart domination that deadened the conscience and intellect of England. Mr. Lambert has not discovered new matter, but he arranges the old in a very useful and instructive way.