FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD

(1833-1912), Shake spear i an scholar and editor; 6. Philadelphia, Pa.> s. of William Henry Furne , 2a Unitarian aaa of note. After graduating from arvard in 1854, he traveled abroad for two years, then studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1859. His early studies of Shakespeare culminated in his exhaustive work, the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, the first volume of which, published in 1871, contained Romeo and Juliet. Succe ive volumes of the dramatist’s works, with an analytic examination of the text, appeared periodically till 1913. He also edited the letters that pa ed between Emerson and his father, published (1910) in Records of a Lifelong Friendship. In his Shake spear i an studies he was a isted by his wife, who prepared A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems. Gottingen University gave him the honorary degree of Ph.D. as a tribute to his work, and like honors were conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale and Columbia, Universities.