11 DECEMBER 1897, Page 24

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Mr. Percy Fitzgerald edits Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson and A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)— " Boswelrs Life of Johnson,"' so runs the editor's advertise- ment, " is a work that has become so overburdened with notes, commentaries, and speculations that the editor has thought it advisable in this edition to include at the foot of the text only the notes by Boswell himself." Others are, indeed, given at the end, and Mr. Fitzgerald has added some of his own, but the Life itself and the Journal appear as they did in Malone's sixth edition. A very convenient addition has been made in the shape of a biographical dictionary of all the persons whose names occur in the book.