17 MARCH 1906, Page 24

A very elegant little volume, the second of the "

Chapbooks " series (E. Grant Richards, 3s. ad. net), is Essays Moral and Polite, 1660-1714, Selected and Edited by John and Constance Masefield. John Evelyn, Jeremy Collier, Cowley, Dryden, Lord Shaftesbury, Addison, Steele, and Bishop Berkeley are represented. The choice and the setting are both good.