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The eighth and concluding volume of the Irving Shakespeare edited

by Henry Irving and Frank Marshall (Blackie and Son) con- tains, besides Prolegomena to the whole, Hamlet, King Henry VIII., and Pericles of Tyre, together with the poems. The general preface is from the pen of Mr. Irving. We have not scrupled to express from time to time our sense of various shortcomings in this work. Now that it is completed, it is only fair to say that it has very great merits, that it especially supplies the reader with much matter that he would not easily find elsewhere, and that in appearance and general execution, especially in the matter of illustration, it reflects great credit on the liberality and enterprise of the publishers.