hlew Readings and New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies. By Henry
Halford 'aughan. Volume II. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Vaughan takes in this volame Henry V. and the Three Parts of Henry VI. The three latter he thinks to have been "if not wrought, yet wrought upon, by Shakespeare," though he misses in them in corn mom with the majority of critics, "some sensible measure" of the charac- teristics of Shakespeare's genius. His volumes can hardly meet in this busy age, with the attention that the labour and ingenuity expended on their production deserve; even students of Shakespeare will regard their length with something of dismay. But we may venture to say that no future editor of the Plays will neglect Mr. Vaughan's contribution to their elucidation. His conjectures may not be of much value—oon.
lectures very seldom are—but the utility of his comments and sugges- tions of meaning, suggestions which not unfreqnently tend to support the commonly received reading, is beyond question.
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