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Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew. You are a delusion, said roundly John Eglinton to Stephen. You have brought us all this way to show us a French triangle. Do you believe your own theory? No, Stephen said promptly. Are you going to write it? Mr Best asked.
White has thus far given us the best extant text, while the fulness of his notes gives his edition almost the value of a variorum. We shall look with great interest for his succeeding volumes. White is mistaken in thinking that to say "my country" for "my county" was a peculiarity of Shallow. It was common in the last century in England.
He ‘gave the people of his best,’ and he usually wished that his best should remain without variorum readings, ‘the chips of the workshop,’ as he called them. The love of bibliomaniacs for first editions filled him with horror, for the first editions are obviously in many cases the worst editions, and once he said to me: ‘Why do they treasure the rubbish I shot from my full-finish’d cantos?’
'A book of Letters, upon all kinds of subjects. 'Claudian, a new edition of his works, cum notis variorum, in the manner of Burman. 'Tully's Tusculan Questions, a translation of them. 'Tully's De Naturâ Deorum, a translation of those books. 'Benzo's New History of the New World, to be translated. 'Machiavel's History of Florence, to be translated.
After dinner into Deptford yard, but our bellies being full we could do no great business, and so parted, and Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by water, where we also parted, and I to several places about business, and so calling for my five books of the Variorum print bound according to my common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy I went home.
No one can have used any of the Variorum Shakespeares without being struck again and again by the masterly way in which Johnson penetrates through the thicket of obscurities raised by Shakespeare's involved language and his critics' fanciful explanations, and brings back for us in plain words the undoubted meaning of many a difficult passage.
But he edited several classical authors, not wholly without intelligence and scholarship, and his Silva Critica, a sort of variorum commentary from profane literature on the Bible, was the forerunner, at least in scheme, of a great deal of work which has been seen since.
But we must return from our excursion into an imaginary variorum, delightful because it requires no eyesight and no thought, to the more serious duty of examining the notes of Mr. White. We have mentioned a single instance in which we differ with him as to the propriety of a fanatical adherence to the text of the Folio of 1623.
Furness, in his variorum edition of Hamlet, says of the words of that character: "No words by him let fall, no syllable by him uttered, but has been caught up and pondered, as no words except those of Holy Writ." But what of its future and how long will the Constitution wholly resist the washing of time and circumstance?
Why do young people sometimes think Marlowe the greatest of all the Elizabethan dramatists? Shakespeare. Among the many good annotated editions of separate plays are the Clarke and Wright, Rolfe, Hudson, Arden, Temple, and Tudor editions. Furness's Variorum Shakespeare is the best for exhaustive study. The best portable single volume edition is Craig's Oxford Shakespeare, India paper, 1350 pages.
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