30 MARCH 1867, Page 22

The Shakespeare Expositor. By Thomas Keightley. (J. Russell Smith.)—The main

contents of this volume are Shakespeare emenda- tions without the plays, so that any of the former editions may be elucidated. But Mr. Keightley has also discoursed learnedly and pro- fusely on the causes of the corrupt state of Shakespeare's text, and has devoted several pages to proving that misprints are common. We hardly needed a ghost from the grave to tell us that, and we should think even a ghost would be ashamed of repeating now that Shake- speare was utterly regardless of literary fame.