[_Shakes_, as used in the following passage by Byron, is a
vulgarism, which probably may be traced to the custom of _shaking_
hands, the _shake_ being estimated according to the value set upon
the person giving it, and hence applied to the person. Byron
writing to Murray, Sept. 28, 1820, says, "I had my hands full, and
my head too just then (when he wrote _Marino Faliero_), so it can
be no great _shakes_."--See Richardson's _Dict._ _s.v._]
_Translation of Richard de Bury._--Is the translation of Richard de
Bury's _Philobiblon_, "with a memoir of the illustrious bishop,"
promised by W. S. G., Vol. ii. p. 203., yet published?