Abstract
IN RECENT ARTICLE IN THIS JOURNALI Arthur Sherbo has drawn attention to the work of A Neglected Critic of Shakespeare's Poetry. This author, who is represented in Malone's edition of 1790 simply as W, contributed a number of interesting notes on Shakespeare's poems to the European Magazine for June 1787. There were twenty notes, and Malone selected eight for his edition (several of them being marked in the text with an asterisk inserted into the existing numbered sequence of notes, the sign of a late addition). Completing Malone's revisions in the 1821 variorum edition, James Boswell, Jr., retained them all, though claiming one of themperhaps independently-as his own discovery.2 The notes are learned comments on sources and allusions, classical and Renaissance, that offer useful glosses on works which had attracted very little notice in the history of Shakespeare crit-
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