17 MARCH 1894, Page 24

Ruskin is the wide range of Mr. Wright's selections, and

the number is between eighty and ninety. The choice is, on the whole, a reasonable one, though there are one or two names which we should not have chosen. Pollok, for instance, and Beattie, are scarcely among the British classics. The biographical notes are somewhat perfunctory. The spelling has been modernised. Some explanation should have been given of this; it is, we think, of doubtful expediency.