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7'0,,,,-s of LowfeJfow. Selected and with an Intro-
duction by George Saintsbury. (T. C. & E. C.
Poem^of HerricL Selected and with an Intro- duction by the Rev. Canon Beechmg, D.D. (Same publishers.)
THOUGH announced as selections, these additions to Mr Oliphant Smeaton's series 1 he Golden Poets " are sufficiently comprehensive to be classed -as works. They contain striking portrait vignettes And pretty and characteristic designs in colour, and are delightful possessions. How tasteful is in each instance the selection is vouched for by the judgment ad knowledge of the respective editors. A Dictionary of Political Phrase* and Allusions. By Hugh Montgomery (Barrister-at-Law) and Philip G. Cambray. (Sonnenschein & Co.) THIS latest addition to " Sonnenschein's Reference Series" is specially useful in newspaper offices. Most of the phrases explained are of modern employ- ment and application, as West Riding Case and Swadeslie Movement. Under heads such as Tory, however, some archaic information is supplied. A .short bibliography is given in an appendix.
To " The World's Classics," in the cheap, satis- factory and attractive series of Mr. Frowde, have been added The Professor at the Breakfast Table and The Poet at the Breakfast Table of Oliver Wendell Holmes, each with an introduction by W. Robertson Nicoll ; Scott's Lives of the Novelists, with an interesting preface by Austin Dobson ; Vol HI. of Edmund Burke, introduced by Frank H Willis; Thackeray's Pendennis, 2 vols., pre- faced by Edmund Gosse ; and Sheridan's Plays, with an introduction by Joseph Knight. These various works are issued in cloth and in attractive bindings, and form a worthy addition to a memor- able series.
AN article of great interest and value is that in The Fortnightly by Mr. Andrew Lang on ' Shelley's Oxford Martyrdom.' It is hard to get at the truth concerning Shelley, who, as every Shelleyan specialist admits, was mythopoeic himself, and a cause of mythmaking in others. Concerning the dons of University College Mr. Lang holds that " they took a cruel and mean revenge on a boy who seems to have treated them habitually in a cavalier manner, and who had now given them an oppor- tunity." " The conclusion of the whole matter is that the player of the pranks played one set of pranks too many, and that his dons seized the chanoe to get rid of him." Mr. Frances Gribble, writing on Longfellow, says much that is true, but is far from doing justice to the merits of some of his later verse. Mr. Teignmouth Shore writes sensibly on ' The Craft of the Advertiser.' Mr. Edgcumbe Staley has some suggestions concerning the use to which the parks and squares of London may be put.
WHAT really amounts to a double number of The Xi H teenth Century is largely it maybe said mainly occupied with the revived Channel Tunnel pro
directed against the scheme published in 1883.
Under the title ' Ibsen's Imperialism ' Mr. William
Archer gives a criticism unfavourable in the main
of the Scandinavian poet's ' Emperor and Gali-
lean.' This dramatic article is flanked by Mr. F. R.
Benson's 'An Attempt to revive the Dramatic
Habit,' and Mr. Baughan's 'The Background of
Drama.' Mr. John Nisbet has an important paper
on ' The Forests of India and their Administration.'
Mr. Adolphus Vane Tempest bewails ' The Decay
of Manners.' Mrs. John Lane writes amusingly, as
usual, on 'The Tragedy of the "Ex'"; and Lord
Burghclere has an elegant rendering of * The
Marriage of Peleus and Thetis ' after Catullus.
MR. LIONEL CUST, M.V.O., writes authoritatively in The Cornhill on 'The Royal Collection of Pic- tures,' and gives a highly interesting account of the share of successive mpnarchs in procuring them. An edifying article by Sir Algernon West, entitled
- Tempora Mutantur,' awakes some curious recol-
lections of political antagonisms. We could supply from personal knowledge instances such as are quoted. 'Under the Red Cross in 1870' supplies proof of British unpopularity in France at that epoch. Mr. A. W. Pollard has an important paper on 'Four Centuries of Book-Prices.' MissMcChesney has an interesting study of * The Lisbon of Rupert and Blake.'
THE frontispiece to The Burlington consists of a superb reproduction of 'The Two Nymphs' of Palma Vecchio. ' The Gobelin Factory and some of its Work ' is an excellent and brilliantly illus- trated article by Lady St. John. Three of the designs to this are from the French Embassy, Rome. 'The Creation of Eve' is from a drawing by William Blake in the possession of Mr. Frank Sabin. A newly discovered portrait by Ambrogio de Predis, ' The Lady with a Weasel,' by Leonardo da Vinci, a bust of Beatrice d'Este, and a portrait of Lucrezio Crivelli, together with ' Cassone Fronts in American Collections,' are specially noteworthy features in an excellent number.
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