rate means;
and it is a scandal that this state of things should be allowed to
continue.... Those who would raise any objection to these
re-editions--as a few have raised them--are asked to consider the
absurdity and injustice of debarring a large number of readers
from the enjoyment of an old author, because a living editor has
once printed his works, when the feeling of the editor himself is
well expressed in the words of one of the class, 'You are heartily
welcome to all I have ever done. I should rejoice to see my books
in the hands of a hundred, where they are now on the shelves of
one.'"--_Extract from the first Prospectus._]

The publications for 1864 are:--

1. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the
fourteenth century (ab. 1320-30 A.D.). Edited for the first time
from a unique MS. in the British Museum, with Notes and Glossarial
Index, by Richard Morris, Esq. 16_s._

2. Arthur. Edited for the first time from the Marquis of Bath's MS.
(ab. 1440 A.D.), by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 4_s._

3. Ane compendious and breve Tractate, concernyng ye office and dewtie
of Kyngis, Spirituall Pastoris, and temporall Jugis; laitlie
compylit be William Lauder. Reprinted from the edition of 1556, and
edited by Prof. Fitz-Edward Hall, D.C.L. 4_s._

4. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight. Edited by R. Morris, Esq., from the
Cottonian MS., Nero, A x. (ab. 1320-30 A.D.) 10_s._

The publications for the present year (1865) will comprise Texts from at
least four unique MSS., two of which will be edited for the first time.

5. Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, a treates
noe shorter then necessarie, be Alexander Hume. Edited for the first
time from the MS. in the British Museum (ab. 1617 A.D.), by Henry B.
Wheatley, Esq. 4_s._

6. Syr Lancelot du Lak. Edited from the MS. in the Cambridge University
Library (15th century), by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A.
[_In the Press._

7. Morte Arthure: the Alliterative Version. Edited from Robert
Thorntone's MS. (ab. 1440 A.D.) at Lincoln, by the Rev. F. C.
Massingberd, M.A.

8. Various Poems relating to Sir Gawayne. Edited from the MSS. by
Richard Morris,