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The English Poets. Edited by Robert Bell. (Charles Griffin and

Co.)—Of this series throe volumes have been forwarded to us, " Shak- speare's Poems," " Ben Jonson's Poems," and the first volume of " Cow- per's." Type and paper are excellent, and each volume neatly bound in scarlet cloth is to be purchased for eighteenpence. This would be excessively cheap even if only the bare text was given, but there is in addition a life of the poet prefixed and critical and historical notes. For these additions Mr. Bell is responsible, as well as for the revision of the text. The editor's work seems to have been carefully and conscien- tiously performed, and the series may be recommended to lovers of poetry.