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Nsw EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—First in order of dignity should come

a very handsome edition de lure of Mr. J. H. Short- house's John Inglesaut (Macmillan and Co., 25s. net). It is in three volumes, the first having for frontispiece a fine portrait of the author. It is a book for deliberate reading, and this sumptuous style of printing suits it admirably.—In the "York Library" (R. Brimley Johnson, 2s. 6d. net) the Amoretti of Edmund Spenser, including the eighty-eight sonnets, the Epithalamion, and the Prothalamion.—In the " Red Letter Library" (Blackie and Son) Poems of Wiliam Wordsworth, with Introduction by Alice Meynell (1s. 6d. cloth, 2s. fid. leather). In "Robert Browning's Works" (Smith and Elder) Vols. V.-VIIL, the eighth volume being the first of The Ring and the Book (2s. 13d: and 3s. net).—Man's Place in the Cosmos. By A. Seth Pringle- Pattison, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons. 6s. net.)--The Principles of Criticism. By W. Basil Worsfold. (G. Allen. 3s. 6d. net.) —The Minder. By John Atkworth. (H. Marshall and Son. Rs. 6d.)—The Vale of Cedars, and other Tales. By Grace Aguilar. With Introdnotion by Walter Jerrold. (Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)—Grace Aguilar, a Spanish Jew by descent, was born in 1816, and died in her thirty-second year. The Vale of Cedars, published posthumously, is a tale of Jewish life in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella. Kiss Cayley's Adventures. By Grant Allen. (G. Newues. 6d.)