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Ginn's New Hudson Shakespeare is a series of interest. Good

and attractive readers for middle forms abound.. Book I. of the Clarendon Readers in Literature and Science, edited by Mr. J. C. Smith (Oxford, 2s. 6d.), is excellent. A. and C. Black publish as the fourth volume of their " Socrates Booklets " A Journey to Russia in 1663, by Guy Miege, Secretary to the Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador to Moscow in that year, Fables from Aesop (L'Estrange's translation) in Blackie's English Texts (10d.) is well worth having. Town schools, with their appalling ignorance of country life, would do well to find a place for the late A. H. Hudson's Adventures Anong Birds (No. 152 of Dent's King's Treasuries of Literature, is. 4d.).

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