Recent Reprints
R. H. WILENSKI'S Dutch Painting first appeared in 1929, when it was mainly concerned with figure painting. its scope was enlarged in a new edition in 1945, and it now appears in a third edition, again revised and enlarged, and with a new chapter on flower painting, from Faber at 42s. Also from Faber (at 12s. 6d.) is a new edition of The Burning Cactus, Stephen Spender's collection of four short stories and a novella, which was first published in 1936.
Robert Curzon's Visits to Monasteries in the Levant was first published in 1849 (two years later than Kinglake's Eothen, with which it may in some ways be compared), and appeared in 3 number of editions up to 1916. It is now reissued, as one of the classic British travel books, by Arthur Barker at 25s., with an introduction by Seton Dearden, a preface by Basil Blackwell, and a series of photographs by Ralph Richmond Brown. Collins have published (at 16s.) a new edition of Arthur Bryant 'S King Charles H. This well-known work was first published in 1931 (when it was highly praised by John Buchan in the Spectator), and has been many times reprinted. An abridged edition has appeared in the past, but the present edition is of the complete work. It includes a new preface by the author.
Two well-known miscellanies appear in new, revised, and enlarged editions : The Fisherman's Bedside Book, edited bY `B. B.,' from Eyre and Spottiswoode at 16s., and The Weekend Book, edited by Francis Meynell, from the Nonesuch Press at 15s. One Mighty Torrent, Edgar Johnson's study of English and American biography, has been reissued by the Macmillan Cony' pany at 47s. 6d.
O.U.P. have produced a handsome children's edition of Gulli- verbs Travels at 12s. 6d. The edition is described as having 'a few minor deletions.'
Chatto and Windus have published George Crabbe : Selections from his Poetry in their Queen's Classics at 6s. 6d.
In the major classics series R. W. Chapman has selected and edited Jane Austen Letters, 1796-1817 in the World's Classics (0.U.P., 5s.); Roy Harvey Pearce has written a new introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales, and Sir Edmund Whittaker a new introduction to Sir Arthur Eddington's 7'he Nature of the Physical World, both in the Everyman's Library (Dent, each 7s.); Dostoyevsky's The Idiot appears in the Penguin Classics in a new translation by David Magarshack at Ss.; and All's Well That Ends Well and The Comedy of Errors in the Penguin Shakespeare at 2s. 6d. each.
NICHOLAS RAEBLIBN
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