VERSUS SHAKSPERE: A PLEA FOR THE DEFENDANT. BY THOMAS D. KING. "The end crownes all; And that old, common ARBITRATOR, Time, Will one day end it." Troilus and Cressida, Act iv., Sc. 5. -:0:- MONTREAL AND ROUSES POINT, N. Y.: LOVELL PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1875. TO THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL CORNWALLIS MONK, ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF HER MAJESTY'S COURT OF APPEALS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA, TO WHOSE PERSONAL KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT IN LETTERS THE AUTHOR IS INDEBTED, THIS BROCHURE IS DEDICATED, NOT ONLY AS DUE IN FRIENDSHIP, BUT ALSO AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS EMINENT ENDOWMENTS, AND TO HIS ATTAINMENTS AS A JURIS-CONSULT, WITH THIS REGRET, THAT THE WORK IS NOT COMMENSURATE WITH THE ESTEEM THE AUTHOR HAS SO LONG HELD FOR ONE SO DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS RIPE AND SOUND SCHOLARSHIP. |