The Shilling Shakespeare. (Rontledge.)—This is, probably, the cheapest book ever
published, intended, of course, to pay. It might, we fancy, challenge comparison even with the books which the religions societies print at a loss, with the cheap Bibles, for instance, or the Pilgrim's Progress at a penny. The type is wonderfully clear, better, to give a familiar example, than that of the Bibles commonly known as " Poly- glott." That we should like to read much of it is more than we can honestly say ; but those who are obliged to read a multitude of books cannot help being fastidious. There are numbers of people, more happily situated, to whom the publication of this volume will be a great wan. We heartily wish that the enterprise of Messrs. Routledge, which, we fancy, more than rivals anything Transatlantic, may meet with the success which it deserves.
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