of which we will quote but one more example (worthy of George Meredith's pen): "that wee mite Whose hat like a stray wing Streams from one cherub shoulder in her flight." There is a good spirit in the book, which makes it a welcome companion. "The King's Classics."-(1) ASSER's Life of Alfred. (2) PETTIE'S Petite Palace. 2 vols. (3) DANIEL'S Delia and Drayton's Idea. (4) SWIFT'S Battle of the Books. (5) Icelandic Translations. (Is. 6d. each. Chatto & Windus.) "The Belle Lettres Series."-(1) OTWAY'S Orphan and Venice Preserved. (2) MIDDLETON and ROWLEY's Spanish Gipsy and All's Lost by Lust. (3) Select Poems of Shelley. (2s. 6d. each. Heath & Co.) The conspiracy of publishers and professors for the education of the "wider public" irresistibly reminds us of the "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," wherewith Herbert tells us that God is wont to snare unregenerate men. It is to be feared that the cheap pocket reprints which stream simultaneously from the publishing firms of England and America, each with a unique claim on our regard, anticipate rather than respond to a splendid popular outburst of literary curiosity, and one is inclined to doubt whether even the student is much better off for the power to accumulate knowledge on his private shelves at small exertion and expense to himself. Some of the works presented were perhaps better left to be hunted down by the hungers of the individual adventurer. There is no doubt that a minor classic like Pettie's "Petite Palace," here reprinted for the first time, and many of the lesser dramatists, forfeit much essential glamour by the easiness of access. "The King's Classics may, however, justly claim pre-eminence among publications of the kind for the excellence of printing and paper, dignity and simplicity of binding, scholarly editing and generally admirable choice of subject. The introductions naturally vary in quality, and in cases where the work is already familiar, and a discussion of its origin easily accessible, might perhaps be dispensed with. We welcome the inclusion of Asser's "Life of Alfred," which is furnished with an excellent introduction by Mr. Lane. We confess to disappointment in the volume of "Icelandic Translations," to which we turned with considerable eagerness. The fact is that the Sagas are as difficult to select from as the Homeric epic; it is not till we come to isolate the great scenes or episodes that we realize the substantial value of the long intervals of marking time, nor how much the effect of the great moments depends on their place in their epic narration. The tremendous impressiveness of Njal's burning is somehow entirely lost when separated -as here—from its context; though this is, we think, partly due to the translator's choice of a short rhyming metre which is a very inadequate substitute for the original prose. "The King's Classics" would be rendering a great service if it would place "Gisli the Outlaw," "The Laexdale Saga," "Njalssaga," and the magnificent Grettissaga" within easy reach of all school libraries. 66 The American series, of which we review volumes from various sections, is also well printed and carefully edited. We find it difficult to understand how critic after critic swells the chorus of Otway's praise; we humbly join the dissentient minority of Voltaire and Byron. We never once feel ourselves in the presence of true passion; he is a poor borrower and a poor inventor; if Fletcher justly deserves the epithet of "penny-a-liner," Otway's lines are cruelly defective in rhythm and in the singing quality essential to blank verse. His letters to Mrs. Barry, here printed in the appendix, are sufficient to explain that lady's preference for the brilliant Rochester; the almost criminal lack of humour they betray is a fundamental weakness which Otway shared with several of the post-Shakespearean dramatists, but he may claim in it a bad pre-eminence. The editor of the volume in our series had the original idea of comparing the limitations of "The Orphan" with those of "Mrs. Warren's Profession." "It is true," he says, “in delineation, fraught with moral purpose, but unfortunate in plot." It was a brilliant stroke of insight to confound Otway's robustious melodrama with the cool, clear, moral daylight of this admirable Play Unpleasant. We should not have ventured a comparison so damaging to the earlier dramatist, but the student will be greatly helped to a just estimate of the "Orphan" if he avails himself of the suggestion and verifies the comparison. It is rare that a selection does not arouse some regrets, and the present selection from Shelley is not an exception. "Julian and Maddalo," the first half of "Epipsychidion" and possibly part of the "Sensitive Plant" might have been omitted to make room for more lyrics. "Away-the moor is dark beneath the moon," is one of the worst omissions. We note the misprint "enormous for "cinereous" in the last verse of "The sun is set the swallows are asleep," and the serious omission of the (Continued on page 624.) RELFE BROTHERS' BOOKS FOR THE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS, ST. MARK. KINGS II. ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Full Notes on both Versions by G. CARTER, M.A. Maps, Historical Tables, &c. Crown 8vo, cloth, 1s. 6d. each. These books are all done on the same admirable plan, and are in use in nearly all Schools that prepare for Examinations. CONTES DES FÉES. By PERRAULT. 1910. The Local Examination Geography of the World. 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The question of Welsh has passed from the region of sentiment to that of practice. Summer schools were also held at Aberystwyth and Barry, and both were highly successful. The Government will pay £30,000 towards the building and equipment of this Training College, which is a conTraining College. siderably smaller sum than it was originally expected to contribute. What with local opposition and the reluctance of the Board of Education to pay any contribution, there has been a very remarkable delay in starting the new premises. Swansea SCOTLAND. The curators of patronage at Edinburgh University have appointed Mr. Arthur Robinson, M.D., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Birmingham, to the Chair of Anatomy, in succession to the late Prof. D. J. Cunningham. Prof. Robinson graduated at Edinburgh twenty-five years ago, and he has successfully taught his subject there and at Manchester and King's College, London, as well as at Birmingham. 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