EDWARD THE SECOND. By Christopher Marlowe (1594).
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY WITH ADDITIONS (1603);
(Oxford University Press for the Malone Society. 2s. 6d.) THE Malone Society, which exists for the printing of exact
texts of the scarcer documents of our early dramatic literature, issues two rare quartos in type facsimile. The earliest known edition of Marlowe's &heard II, 1594, is printed by Dr. Greg, one of our greatest textual scholars, from the only known copies, one in Switzerland and one in Germany. The enlarged version of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, 1602, of which a perfect copy was not discovered till 1904, appears with an important bibliographical discussion, by Dr. Greg and Professor F. S. Boas. Accurate publications of this kind, enriched as they are by consummate and unobtrusive scholarship, are known to scholars, but not sufficiently appreciated by lovers of our literature, who may, by subscribing to the Malone Society, vie with American millionaire collectors in the possession of our rare dramas.
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