This book is what it purports to be,not a collection of elaborate essays devoted to metaphysical analysis or to conjectural emendations of doubtful lines,but a series of ideal portraits of the women of Shakspeare's plays.

[Sub-Footnote ii: An emendation by S. T. C.Ed.] * * * *

I think I shall adopt your emendation in the "Dying Lover," though I do not myself feel the objection against "Silent Prayer.

Lord Bowen is immortalized by his emendation to the Judge's address to the Queen, which had contained the Heep-like sentence"Conscious as we are of our own unworthiness for the great office to which we have been called."

The plough, indeed, is sometimes used as a draining implement for making a deep furrow, in which, with more or less emendation from the spade, the tiles or other draining materials may subsequently be laid.

I am just undertaking an edition of Lucan, my friend Mr. Bentley having in his possession his father's notes and emendations on the first seven books.

He made the emendations with grave carefulness.