27 AUGUST 1921, Page 25

The Poems of Edward de Pere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.

By J. Thomas Looney. (Shakespeare Edition.) (Cecil Palmer. 7s. net.)—To William Stanley, sixth Earl of Derby ; to Roger, fifth Earl of Rutland; to Chettle, Heywood, and Webster—a few of the " Shakespeares " we have known—must be added the name of Edward de Yore, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Mr. Looney has chosen to occupy nearly half of what would otherwise have been a welcome edition of Oxford's graceful tad little-known poems with his theories on Shakespeare's Identity. We reviewed Mr. Looney's Shakespeare Identified In 1920, and the small quantity of fresh matter in the present volume does not affect the opinion of the inadequacy of his theories which we then expressed.