The Manual of the Antiquity of Man, by J. P. MacLean [Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. $1.00], presents in a compact form a pretty full outline of the facts and arguments bearing on this much-vexed question. The writer holds to man's extreme antiquity, dating back to the miocene period, or earlier, when he first appeared in a condition "very little removed from the brute;" and reviews his progress briefly through the various epochs to the present. There are a good many mistakes in the book; the wood-cuts are coarse, and the general appearance is far from attractive. That the eighth edition has been already called for, however, shows the public appreciation of its plain, pointblank way of putting things.

the preeminent position it has held for the come down to us, the spelling appears to be
last.
"Shakspere"; but then, as Mr. Furnivall states,
there are only five of them in all. If there were
more of them, the case might not be so good a
one for the advocates of that orthography. "Are
we to suppose," some one has asked, "that
Shakespeare didn't know how to spell his own
name?" And the question has been answered
by another: "Are we to suppose that he didn't
know how to spell it in more than one way?" That
was the free-and-easy fashion of the time, with
regard to family names as well as other words;
and Shakespeare unquestionably allowed other
people to spell his name as we do, whatever may
have been his personal habit. On more than
fifty title-pages of plays and poems printed
during his life the name is either "Shakespeare"
or "Shake-speare." In the six editions of his
Venus and Adonis published before his death,
the dedication is signed "William Shakespeare";
and the same is true of his Lucrece. We cannot
doubt that this was according to the poet's de-
sire, or at least by his sanction. His personal
friends, including the scholarly Ben Jonson, fol-
low the same orthography. So does Milton, so
does Davenant, who was the poet's godson, and
so does almost every writer of that generation.
Falstaff signs himself "Jack Falstaff with my
familiars, John with my brothers and sisters, and
Sir John with all Europe"; and the dramatist,
his will for his "familiars" and relatives, appears
even if he wrote himself down "Shakspere" in
to have preferred, or at least consented, to be
known as Shakespeare" with all England, as
he now is with nearly all the world.

SHAKESPEARIANA.

[EDITED BY W. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS.] "Shakespeare," or "Shakspere," or What? -Mr. Furnivall sends us the following note of his from a recent number of the London Daily

News:

founder of Maryland.

If he is a Romanist, he is certainly a "broad one, as the following forcible passage from his comments on King John (which we are glad to have an excuse for quoting) may show:

An important figure in the play of King John is Cardinal Pandulph, the Pope's legate. At that period papal power was paramount. Of Pandulph Shakespeare avails himself to reprethat he is empowered by Heaven to be the sent a typical priest, that is, a man who assumes exclusive, infallible expounder and interpreter of heavenly things, to guide and rule the spirituality of other men -an assumption which, concentratiniquity of despotism, is a blasphemy towards ing in itself the guilt of usurpation with the God and an offense and an insult to man. One wonders at the ignominious moral subjection of show of indignant scorn at its weakness and an age that bowed before such tyranny; but a superstition is checked by the sudden reflection that ourselves live in the shadow of this tyranny, and that, if incorporated sacerdotalism has, through the working of mental emancipation, the strengthening and purifying of the individual conscience, been shorn of much of its authority, its black shadow shortened and thinned, still itself has not foregone a tittle of its inhuman control, political as well as moral, crippling the pretension, and perseveres in grasping at supreme wills of men even to paralysis, that it may sway their minds, ever ravenous of power, its master passion an unholy ambition.

beth, Shakespeare becomes the spokesman of
Writing in the aroused forceful age of Eliza-
English independence, of Protestant manliness,
legate and his chief. Passages like this-of
and, in a passage quivering with eloquent patriot-
ism, makes the King of England defy the papal
which there are others in his works-set forth
the greatest poet and deepest dramatist of the
world as not only the foremost national poet of
England, but as the champion of Protestantism
or free religion. [Then follows an extract from
King John, iii. 1. 147-171, beginning with

What earthly name to interrogatories
Can task the free breath of a sacred king?

and ending with

Yet I, alone, alone, do me oppose

Against the pope, and count his friends my foes.]

It must be confessed that it was "a curious

slip" on our part not to see that the writer of the above, in alluding to "the seventh commandment" on another page of the same book, "evidently" meant the one so numbered in the deca

Toryism and tradition die hard in literature as well as in politics; and for every popular error in possession of men's minds plenty of specious reasons can always be found. The spelling of our great dramatist's name is no exception to the rule. There are two ways to spell it; the one in which he wrote it, and the other the way in which he didn't write it, so far as our evidence extends. "The wisdom of our ancestors" unAmong the "wiseacres" to whom Mr. Furnihappily fixed on the latter way; and our modern vall refers as persisting in spelling Shakespeare wiseacres follow it, and abuse those reformers is Dr. Ingleby, who desired that in the new who think it reasonable to write Shakspere's edition of his Shakespeare's “Centurie of Prayse" name as they can prove he wrote it himself in the majority of the five signatures he has left us. just published by the New Shakspere Society, Anyone who knows even a little of the Eliza- the orthography of the name in the first edition bethan age knows too its fondness for "con- should be retained. Miss Smith, who saw the ceits," especially verbal ones, and it is certain book through the press, did not understand this, that when a poet Shakspere began to write, his name would be turned at once by London and has herself spelt the name "Shakespere." conceit-mongers into "Shake-speare." So, if a She explains in her preface that "the error, if minor poet of our own day, Mr. Swinburne, had any " is her own, and adds: "It is needless here written then, his name would have infallibly to enter into the controversy as to the right been printed" Swineburne " or pigsbrook: AngloSaxon swin-a pig; burne-a brook. This spelling, the evidence afforded by the only manu-logue as arranged by the Latin Church, where London manufacture of the spelling Shake- script signatures that are at present known be speare" is so plain upon the face of it, though ing uncertain, and variously read by the best the spelling is recorded long before, that every experts." one with a feeling for what is genuine, must instinctively reject it; and when one finds that Shakspere did so himself, and that not one of his written signatures is "Shakespeare," while the greater number are Shakspere, and all are written in the latest and maturest period of his life, one is only too glad to get rid of that con- largest liberty in this respect. ceit of his London contemporaries, printers and Mr. Furnivall supposes that the spelling Shakefriends, which even yet has so strong an attrac-speare grew out of the fondness for verbal “ tion for follow-my-leader minds, and makes them ceits" in the Elizabethan age. It may be that it write "Shakespeare." To justify their proceeding, they of course say, "the question is, not how did; but it is curious how few quibbles, compliShakspere signed his name but how his friends mentary or otherwise, upon the name are to be spelt it"; that "if you spell it as Shakspere found among contemporaneous allusions to the wrote it people 'll pronounce it 'Shaxpere,'" &c.; all which is, I humbly submit, sheer gammon. poet. The evidence to decide the question is Shakspere's own signatures, and these (by a large majority) declare for Shakspere, and leave Shake-speare" without any authority at all. For this latter spelling there is nothing but evidence which printers and friends may have tampered with; it is poor second-hand evidence against first-hand, and isn't worth considering.

There are two sides—if not more to this question, even after almost a century of wordy warfare over it. It must be admitted that in the "majority" of the poet's signatures which have

While we personally prefer Shakespeare we have no disposition to quarrel with those who adopt a different spelling. Here in the World, as in our edition of Shakespeare, we allow the

con

the first and second commandments are made one, and the tenth is divided into two; but as it was only a slip-not a willful fracture of the eighth (Roman) or ninth (Protestant) commandment, we hope to be forgiven for it.

Higginson.

BORN.

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NECROLOGY.
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Mr. Calvert's "Seventh Commandment." In the last number of the World (p. 41), a correspondent, criticising our criticism of Mr. Calvert's reference to the seventh commandment (Dec. 20, p. 437), remarks: "Mr. C. evidently employs the Roman division of the commandments, where the seventh forbids stealing." We - Amateur Theatricals, a pretty little volume were not aware that Mr. C. was a Roman Catho- in the “Art at Home Series,” attracts immediate lic, though we knew him to be a lineal descend-attention by Kate Greenaway's charming illustraant of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, the tions. It has a frontispiece of a pretty little

his own observation. It will appear about the
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maiden in picturesque theatrical dress, and the
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