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MAY 7, 1853. MR. COLLIER'S SHAKESPEARIAN DISCOVERY. Now Ready, in Bvo., price lie., cloth lettered, with a Lida - v.llONi Facsimile of the THE PRESS. (inert fors t.► Henry Coltinnt) ‘‘ Jr 4 111141 IL THE FOLLOWINIi °HKS. 111. or. WHAT 111 . : sAll), 1)11), or INN' LNTFD. v"is. 1:".1. 2 vol . 101 . 1: 01 I\l4l ill\ •Illlioll ' l.ll \ II S. cowl I :Tit hal. 3 111. LUPTON. :1 vok. 23 1:►, l; ItI:AT NIAIII.IIOROUOWSTIMET. HURST AND BLACKETT, The DUKE of BUCKINGHAM'S MEMOIRS of the COURT awl CABINETS of CEltlle.l . : 111.. fiNon thiiriurl Faimil) 1 h Second Eilitiou, re vised, t! volA. s‘o. Portrait , . :to,. "'These VAlllileA colliklill 1111101 \1411t31.1.• Hl'e three periods %m on which they shell O goikl 41.111 of light---the ii,,• 1111111 , 1 I) 111111eN4 of the I.h*g in 17 , 0+, and the first war a ith Republican Fianc... - Tonev. " A very remarkable and ‘alinitile publication. ilet.ll , l. "The.' 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It Is truly s work which un•rit wir admiration. mai we Klee It our aurnicst 1 talsa4, tinhesitatinul referring utir readers t it. I.l.,cniatitig pages.--Diqattck. cut. CLASSIC and HISTORIC PORTRAITS. By James Bruce, THE NEW NOYEL. HARRY MUIR. By the Author of "Margaret Maitland." prefer 'llitrry Muir' to rnomt or th. S at'. 1• 1 shut have appeal e.l Hitlel , 011ie.' 1110111PNI.je Mories Nll'll' 1.111415111141. '1 kir new tale. by tho Authui 4 , 1 M itttwet Maillakikol: ir• a real philtre or Ow pakne,. , of matfe nature and the depth Ive.atatt kladucre. l'he narrative, to repeat our hrai.•, is nut tine to be catered tut or tinted Ituiu " revert! for it. , Witter bring litereogrd,.. —.4 Melte 111/1. The LONGWOODS of the GRANGE. By the Author of " I.iiidea." 3 vole. are a family twill , , in the story t f vilnein life roniame readeni will Inid ilium and an iiiterent similar to tliut attrutle the aumili of "lIIJ %lour Dit ily News. "A tale such ne Austen usiglit have lien proud uf, and G dd.o ile would nut hays lii/WWII, i ADA GRESHAM : an Autobiography. By Mary Anne '" Ada Gresham' is well entitled to a high 'drive among modern works of fiction. Vila story maintains a high interest throughout."—Stan end. "A work written with great command of language and much knowledgo of the passions. It is full of yigour and tunlvutitstl ability, and causivt fail to Mai am extended pupWarity.' —Ublsmer. l'orreeted Folio of la:, NOTES AND EMENDATIONS TO THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN A C 'WY OF THE FOLIO OF 1631, IN THE POSSESSION OF JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Es 1., F.S.A. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " Men have acquired reputation by a single emendation of Shakespeare; learned editors have exeeedingly plumed themselves upon a few successful hits ; the best critics have dote but little, — here we have a book that at ' one fell swoop' knocks out a thousand errors, for the most part so palpable, when once pointed out, that no one can deny their existence, and substitutes outside. lions so clear that we cannot hesitate to itecept them. In our judgmeitt, this is a result which may well be esteemed fortunate and ham, a subject of congratulation to every one conceived iu it." —Athena-ant, Jam $, 1853. " The volume bcforo lie is sufficient to show what we should have possessed in the way of added beauty, and escaped hi the way of tedious conjecture, had Shakespeare been his omit editor, sq• found some congenial fiend to undertake for him the tusk of passing his works through the press. The corrections which Mr. Collier has here given to the world are, we venture to think, of more value than the labours of nearly all the critics on Shakespeare's text put together."—Literory Garotte, Jan. $, 1853. " It is not for a moment to be doubted, we think, that in this volume a contribution has been made to the cletumess and accuracy of Shakespeare's text by far the most quportaut of any offered or attempted since Shakespeare lived and wrote."—Ecaminer, Jan. 29, 1653. The volume has, of course, produced an unexampled sensation, and the corrections Lave been submitted to the severest senttiny. The character of its contents would at once have stamped them with authenticity. Some of tho new readings are to admirable, others so ingenious, and there is so much skill, adroitness, and apprehension in the mode the text has been treated, that it must be clear to any one capable of appreciating such labours that the corrector has either en joyed the advantage of acquaintance with the Shakespearian plays at the time when they were com paratively new, or is some master critic who has gone over n field In which the first minds of the notion have toiled for a century."—Monary Chronicle, March 2S, 1853. "We could easily multiply instanees of the value of these ' Notes and Emendations' We trust that we have made every lover of Shake:Team sufficiently acquainted with the importance of Mr. Collier's book. Those who possess it will Lave a truly Shakespearian treasure, and one the p niance of which for obtaining a right appreciation of the author's mind and intention must t 4 oil time be pronounced invaluable."—Bell's Nesse/I:ice, l'eh. 5, 1853. " In the volume before us Mr. Collier give; the public the larger and more valuable portions of these annotation'. All the painful labours of all the connnentators, from the days of Rowe down. wards, shrink into absolute nothingness—all the ingenuity and learning hitherto exhibited is mere blundering and blindness—in comparison with the labour and sagacity of this single and anony 300118 hand. He must have had accoss to authorities long inc lost to the world."—Northantplon Mercury, Feb. 12, 1853. " Mr. Collier's publication has been warmly weleonted. and cannot fail to be considered a great Shakespearian movement in the true direction. It will torn henceforth an inseparable pendant to the received editions. and must undoubtedly tako the lead over Pvcry other compilation of ' Note* nod Emendation. ' It is not going too far to pronounce that in intrinsic value it is fairly worth all the rest.' '—Dublin rrarosity 3lttgo.:;ne. March. 187):!. " From the specimens which we have selected, our readers nre t:ow in a position to form for themselves some ides of tho nature and value of the newly-discovered emendations. Some of them, it will be acknowledged. are so eertaia. Ink 4 at the same time so divergent from the received test, that they must have been derived from the original manuscript Mr. Collier's discovery has revealed to us a depth of corruption in the printed test which no one had insagined."—Frazer's .Ifogarinc, March, Ig3. 3111. COLLIER'S NEW TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE. Now neatly, in One Volume, snpera•oyal BYO., 21s. cloth gilt, 4 . 2%. in morocco, by Hayday hanbomely printed in a clear readable type, with Portrait, Vignette, and Facsimile, THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE The Text regulated by the Old Copie;. and by the recently-dicovered Folio of lei 2; ..ontaining Early Manuscript Emendations. Edited by JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F.S.A• WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE. mloil