youth, and been morally "stiffened" by doing so, ever ceases
to be a student of his works, or of his character as reflected in these works. This little volume by Mr. Wilson Verity will secure, therefore, an audience much larger than that for which it has, no doubt, been originally intended. It contains not only the text of "Arcades" and " Comus," and very full notes upon them—how full any one will see who reads the explanation, or attempted ex- planation, of "budge doctors of the Stoic fur," at p. 161—but a Life- of Milton, and a very elaborate and interesting historical essay on "The English Masque." In this the contrast between the masque and the anti-masque, between "a vision of splendour, suffused with the light that never rested on sea or land," and the laughable commonplaces or incongruities of the comddie humaine, is admirably brought out.
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