Students of the Elizabethan drama, and l hf Shakespeare in particular, will
be interested in the scholarly essay on " bethan Handwritings " which Mr. Hilary Jenkireson contributes to the Library for June (H.. Milford, 6s. net). It is a lucid outline of a subject which is far more complex and difficult than most inquirers suppose it to be; the paper is illustrated with a dozen good facsimiles of different hands. We may mention, too, that Mr. H. It. Plomer has apparently discovered a new fact relating to Richard Pynson, the early London printer, who is known to have been at work near Temple Bar in 1490. Mn Ploiner has found a reference to a Richard Pynson, glover, of St. Clement Danes, in 1482. As Caxton was a mercer before he became a printer, so Ppm= may well have been a glover, but the identification is not absolutely certain.
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