EDMUND, the well-known editor of Shakespere, was the son of an Irish judge, and was born at Dublin in 1741. After graduating at Trinity College in his native city, he studied at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar in 1767. Inheriting, however, a competent fortune, he soon exchanged his professional labours for the more congenial pursuits of literature. In 1780 Malone published two supplementary volumes to Stevens' edition of Shakespere; and his own edition of the great dramatist, in 11 volumes 8vo, appeared in 1790. He also, in 1796, defended the fame of Shakespere by exposing the spuriousness of the MSS. attributed to the poet by the Irelands. Malone was one of the executors of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in 1797 published the works and a memoir of that great painter. He died in 1812. An edition of his Shakespere, which he had greatly improved during the latter part of his life, was published in 21 volumes, in 1821, by his friend Mr James Boswell. His other works are,—Curious Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley, 8vo, London, 1782; The Prose Works of John Dryden, accompanied with a Memoir, 1800; and The Works of William Gerald Hamilton, with a Sketch of his Life.