17 JUNE 1876, Page 22

A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope. By Edwin

Abbott. With an Introduction by Edwin A. Abbott, D.D. (Chapman and Hall.) —This is a book for which no other notice is possible but an expression of respect and gratitude. Men who are willing to undertake labours so vast, and at the best, so indifferently remunerative, deserve the heartiest thanks of all students and lovers of literature. It is refreshing.to find

that such sound, sterling work as Pope's poetry has readers enough to snake a fair demand for a Concordance to be, at least, presumable. We bad not thought so well of the taste of the age, and we correct our im- pressions very willingly. Dr. Abbott prefixes some brief notes on peculiarities in Pope's grammar, metre, and orthography.