Written in 1897, this study probed Shakespeare's use of archery as a metaphor, and focused on many hitherto doubtful or misunderstood words and passages in the Shakespeare canon. At the time of original publication, William Lowes Rushton, a barrister-at-law, was President of the Mersey Bowmen, and the author of Shakespeare a Lawyer, Shakespeare's Legal Maxims, and other Shakespeare books.