3 JULY 1909, Page 32

Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Faithfully Reproduced in

Facsimile from the Edition of 1632. (Methuen and Co. .84 4s.)—The Folio of 1632, it will be remem- bered, is the second of the four. Its successors of 1664 and 1685 have already appeared in facsimile ; its predecessor of 1623 is to follow, and the whole set will be obtainable at .£12 12s. The publishers remind us that a fine set of the four cannot be obtained for less than .87,000 (if, indeed, it can be bought at all), nor an inferior set for less than .23,000. Five hundred years hence it might be difficult to distinguish between the seventeenth- and the twentieth-century work.