NOTES:-Shakspeariana, 1—Honorary Degrees, 3-Curlliana sense here too. Unfortunately, too, neither bank nor shoal possesses in Shakespeare the meaning which this interpretation gives them. Bank means encircled by water." Except the present passage 5-Miss Foote-Louvima-Verification of Quotations, 6. QUERIES:-Chaffer-Challis-Chaise-longue-Chad Pennies -Egotism-Macready, 7-Letting the Lightning out-E, J. Conroy - Bishops Jackson and Lloyd-The Sorbonne Henry IV. and Mary de Bohun-Confucius-Hugo Lloyd- Title of Book of Hymns-Certifago, 8-Rockall-Servants sion-Up-Helly-A, 11-Church Bells-Catsup-Reference Wanted, 12-Caradoc-Book by General Outram-Royal Offering-Cathedrals - Berthold's Political Handkerchief' -Lapp Folk-Tales, 13-Snead-St. Malan-Scarron-Ver- non-Norfolk Song, 14-Title of Novel-John Hamilton- Barum Missal-Shakspeare-Hide-Motion of the Sun, 15- Rebecca-Hussar Pelisse, 16-Portraits-Sons of Edward III.-Roman Wall, 17-Standing up at the Lord's Prayer- Mr. Justice Rokeby-Lindsey House-Wills of Suicides NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Dictionary of National Biography,' Vol. XV.-Lang's 'Perrault's Popular Tales'-Clouston's Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks. I have noted seven other instances in Shakespeare in which the two words occur synonymously in close connexion. Life is then regarded as the shore from which the blind leap is made into eternity's ocean. The oft-repeated phrase of Latin poets, in luminis oras, occurs at once as a parallel, to which the word cause has been quite undeservedly, I THE TEXT OF MACBETH.' (Concluded from 7th think, suspected, and by Sidney Walker, Collier, S. v. 323.) Since communicating my former notes Dyce, and Singer rejected in favour of course. The to examine the text of a passage which I had Good my lord, what is your cause of dis- viously supposed to have been emended in so satis- temper?" as well as 'John,' III. iv. 12, "Such tion. In Macbeth's soliloquy in I. vii. Theobald's give the rash emendator pause. correction of "bank and shoal of time" for "Banke then, are we to take cause? Surely not, as the = |