19 DECEMBER 1903, Page 23

In Mr. John Long's series of " Modern Classics "

we have, following up Anthony Trollope's "Three Clerks," Charles Reade's Cloister and the Hearth. This, as our readers are probably aware, is a novel of unusual length. (It originally appeared in four -volumes.) Anyhow, it occupies here six hundred and seventy- two pages ; not far off three hundred thousand words, we imagine. Add to this amount of type sixteen good illustrations and a portrait of the author, and it must be allowed that 3s. net for the volume bound in leather, and 2s. in cloth, is a marvel of cheapness.