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Bartlett, is well equipped for ordinary
study and for full enjoyment of "the
Divine William" - and even if he
discard the "Life" & the "Lexicon" he
need not stumble any more at the
second through reading, than he will
actually stumble walking an ordinary
Canadian country road.

Dull as may be some of
the books about our Bard, the books
that he used, the books that helped
his genius, will always have a
charm for some of us; - and such
an attraction belongs to "Il Pecorone" of
Giovanni Fiorentino, written as early
as 1378 and printed in Venice 1565,
the suggested probable source of the plot of
"The Merchant of Venice". The
Stratford (Canada) copy has in it
the ex-libri of Charles Nodier - of
Viollet-le-Duc and of the enthusiastic

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