BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROJECT

Of the various sections into which the history of English literature is divisible, there is no one in which the absence of collective materials is more seriously felt--no one in which we are more in need of authentic *notes*, or which is more apt to raise perplexing *queries*--than that which relates to the authorship of anonymous and pseudonymous works. The importance of the inquiry is not inferior to the ardour with which it has sometimes been pursued, or the curiosity which it has excited. On all questions of testimony, whether historical or scientific, it is a consideration of the position…