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All advertisements intended to reach the more cultivated portion of the community, as well as such as are addressed to travelers, will find a suitable andience, as the circulation of TIIE WESTERN is confined to no part of the country, and everywhere the Journal finds its audience among those most likely to read advertisements which form part of the maga. zine that is read. Our rates of advertising are as low as those offered by any reputable journal, and we engage to see any obligations on our part properly discharged. E. Malone-Account of the Incidents from which title and part of the Story of The Tempest was derived. Thos. Middleton-The Witch. Meres-Treasury of Wit. Wm. Maginn-Shakespeare Papers. John Nichols-Six Old Plays. W. Parr-Story of the Moor of Venice (from the Italian). Duncan Pell-Harper's, 23-486. K. Prescott-Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. R. Robinson-Translation of Gesta Romanorum. Sir Philip Sidney-Arcadia (Parallelisms). Alex. Sylvayn-Orator (Plot of Merchant of Venice). Stearns-Shakespeare Treasury. B. Thorpe-Anglo-Saxon Version of the Play of Pericles. Lope de Vege-Romeo and Juliet. VOL. III.-NO. 1.-1. Peter Whalley-An Inquiry into the Learning of Shake speare. Geo. Whetstone-Promos and Cassandra. Geo. Wilkins-Pericles, Prince of Tyre: a novel. Apollonius of Tyre (Anglo-Saxon Version of Pericles). Chronicle History of Leir, King of England. Dublin University Magazine, July, 1876. Euphues Golden Legacie (As You Like It). Essay on Authorship, three parts Henry VI., 1859. Famous Victories Henry V. Gentleman's Magazine, 1833, Vol. I-415. Gesta Romanorum. London Quarterly Review, 1849, et aliter. North American Review 54-318. Pitiful History of Two Loving Italians. Papers of the Shakespeare Society: (Passage in Marlowe's Edward II., and in first part of The Contention. Ballad illustrating Romeo and Juliet. Illustrative of Twelfth Night. Campbell's Mistake about the Tempest. Punctuation of "too, too," in Hamlet. Heywood's Ballad of the Green Willow vs. Othello's Green Willow. Imitations of Shelley in Shelley's Ceres. Shakespeare's Puck. Illustration of a Passage in Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare illustrated: or the novels and histories upon which the Plays of Shakespeare are founded.) Retrospective Review, 8-108, 127, 129, 130, 225. Shakespeare Society Publications, 1842 (Old Play of Timon). Shakespeare illustrated: novels and histories on which the Plays of Shakespeare are founded, 1753. The novel from which Merchant of Venice is taken. Six old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, John, Henry IV. and V. LEGAL KNOWLEDGE. Lord Campbell-Legal Acquirements of Shakespeare. Heard-Legal Attainments of Shakespeare. |