20 AUGUST 1836, Page 19

A new edition of SHAKSPEARE, to form one large octavo

volume of ,clear and readable type, printed in double columns, and embellished 'with engravings from designs by SMIREE, WesrAt.a, CORBOULD, STEPHANCIFF, and %Valour, has commenced publishing in parts. It is edited by the Reverend W. HARNESS; whose Memoir of SHAKSPEARE, ia the first number, is compiled with great care and discrimination, and contains every authentic particular of the life of the poet.. There are no notes, but a comprehensive glossary is given, and a brief account is prefixed to each play. The CHANDOS portrait is engraved for the frontispiece.