Excerpt from Shakespeare's Comedy of T He Merchant of Venice It also gives me pleasure to acknowledge the interest taken in my work by Mr. Edward Howard Griggs, and to thank him here for several timely and most helpful criticisms. It would take too much space to set forth a list of all the books upon which I have drawn, and so I have contented myself with furnishing the titles of a small number only. These, however, are of the first im portance, and some of them (which I indicate by a cross, thus T) are works which the student of Shake speare should have by him constantly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.