The World's Romances. (T. Nelson and Sons. 2s. 6d. each.)—
Messrs. Nelson send a series of four volumes, in which are retold at full length and with considerable freedom some of the oldest romances in European legend. Mr. W. E. Sparkes tells in good spirited language the story of Sigurd and Gudrun, with all the fighting of the Northmen. The illustrations of Mr. F. C. Pape have no great force but are pretty and gracefirl. Those of Mr. W.. Matthews in Paolo and Francesca, also told by Mr. Sparkes, are stronger. The tale of Faust and Marguerite shows less distinction in the telling of Miss Wilmot Buxton, but the pictures of Mr. Norman Little are vigorous and suitable, though he clings too closely to the conventional melodramatic Mephistopheles. Lancelot and Guinevere is well told by Miss Gladys Davidson, and Innes Fripp provides spirited pictures.
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