13 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 23

A very pretty and convenient little gift-book is The Illustrated

Pocket Shakespeare. Edited by J. Talfourd Blair. (D. Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—It consists of eight small volumes, weighing (whole- bound in leather) about 4oz. each, and measuring 3f in. by 21 in. by f in., and therefore really fit for the pocket. The whole eight are enclosed in a box cabinets which weighs, when full, about 2 lb., and might go very well in a very modest oorner of one's luggage. When we say that the volumes are very clearly printed on good paper, that there is a glossary, an index to common quotations, and a life, not to speak of illustrations, we have said enough to show that this is really a most convenient, as it is certainly a handsome little book. The price is surprisingly small.