For the third time in a decade, a British scholar has produced an independent text of Shakespeare, truly a notable record. The latest, The London Shakespeare, an annotated and critical edition of the complete works, with glossary, in six well-printed volumes, is the work of J. J. Munro, who unfortunately did not live to see it through the press. The General Introduction, by G. W. G. Wickham, is warmly recommended for its account of Shakespeare’s life (I, xi-xvii). That Munro was able in less than ten years to pick up the threads of Shakespeare scholarship laid down thirty years before at his entry into service in the First World War and make a critical text of the Works is extraordinary. He read most of the right authorities and familiarized himself with the new critical approaches. It would be interesting to know whether he edited the individual titles in the order in which they appear in print, for in the later volumes he appears to take more serious account of certain kinds of evidence than in the earlier, when it was perhaps not properly evaluated. He never seems at home, for example, in matters bibliographical, though there are occasional references to such studies. C. K. Hinman is not included among the authorities consulted, and though W. W. Greg’s The Shakespeare First Folio is listed, citations are to the earlier Editorial Problem in Shakespeare.