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That a new edition of Table Talk should issue under

the auspices of the Selden Society is as it should be, and that it should be based on a hitherto tmcollated manuscript (belonging to Lincoln's Inn) is better still. The result as edited by Sir Frederick Pollock (Quaritch, 7s. 6d.) is a more exact version than any even in the British Museum. By permission of the Dictionary of National Biography there is added a life of Selden by the late Sir Edward Fry. " except Bacon's Essays," wrote Mr. Herber, Paul, " there is hardly so rich a treasure-house of worldly wisdom in the English language as Selden's Table Talk," and it is a delight to have this beautifully got-up volume to help us rummage through the treasury.

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