In the series of "Heath's English Classics" (D. C. Heath
and Co., 1s), we have Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Edited by M. Hall Shackford, Ph.D. (The notes are brief and to the point. The preliminary account of the Roman Constitution is too vague. "Two consuls usually chosen from the patricians" is not correct. They were always so chosen up to 365 B.C. Nor were" the plebeians allowed to elect tribunes" before); Joan of Arc, and The English Mail-Coach, by Thomas de Quincey, Edited by Charles NI. Stebbing, MA. (is.); Bacon's Essays, Edited by Fred Allison Horne, LL.B. (Is. 6d.)—A class-book of more than common interest is Old English Ballads, by Frank Sidgwick (Cambridge University Press, Is. 6d.) Mr. Sidgwick gives us an introduction in which he briefly explains the nature of the ballads and their place in literary and national history. Then follow the ballads, thirty-four in number, among them being "The Heir of Lynne," "Thu Bailiff's Daughter of Islington," "Fair Helen of Kireonnell," King Edward and the Taunus of Tamworth," "The Braes of Yarrow," and "Sir Patrick Spence." The spelling is modernised and the text revised—the volume is meant, it will be remembered, for schools— and there are some useful notes.—From Messrs. Macmillan we have received A School .Arithmelic, with Answers, by H. S. Hall, M.A., and F. H. Stevens, M.A. (4.9. 6d.)
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