16 FEBRUARY 1895, Page 23

Plutarch's Lives of Greek Heroes. (Blackie and Son.) — This is one

of Messrs. Blackie's "School and Home Library." The "heroes" are Aristides, Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, Pclopidas, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Philopcemen. Some abbrevia- tion has been employed, and a few notes are added. Another publication belonging to the same series is Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop.