Shakspere's Handwriting. By. Sir George Greenwood.
(Lane. 2s. net.)—Sir George Greenwood, who seems, like Nash and Greene, to bear a grudge against the man Shakespeare, has written a pamphlet to explain, why he is unconvinced by Sir Edwand Maunde Th,ompson's argument for the theory that part of a manuscript play, Sir Thomas More, is in Shakespeare's handwriting. Sir George Greenwood boasts that he is no palaeographer, but he ventures to challenge the opinion of our greatest expert in regard to many palaeographic details. His tacit assumption that a hard-working literary man, such as the world supposes Shakespeare to have been, could not have written very badly and almost illegibly in middle life is, we regret to say, wholly unfounded. Editors and compositors could give Sir George Greenwood plenty of evidence on this head.
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