THE YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES, 1925. 'Edited for the
English Association by F. S. Boas and C. H. Herford. (Oxford University Press. 7s. ed.)-How intensive the study of English literature has become may be judged from this book. A dozen experts require over three hundred pages to describe briefly the output of a slate year in literary history and criticism. For the specialist, `Uothing could be more useful ; the mere lover of good letters may be daunted until
perhaps he lights on Mr. H. V. Routh's witty chapter
The Nineteenth Century and After," and learns that n " the classicists are for the thousandth time turning on g romantics "-Miss Sitwell to the contrary notwithstanding We may commend especially Dr. A. W. Reed's chapter on t Renaissance and Sir E. K. Chambers's survey of recent w on Shakespeare.
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