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Waltoniana. By Richard Herne Shepherd. (Pickering.)—The feature of this book

is that it contains " inedited remains, in verse and prose, of Isaak Walton," the poems beginning with the "Elegy upon Dr. Donne." Walton'e final cast of this is to be found in his life of Dr. Donne; but Mr. Shepherd gives us hero his first copy, published as early as 1633. The question of the authorship of some of the pieces is argued with ingenuity. Lovers of the Gentle Angler" will find much to interest them in this volume.