20 MAY 1893, Page 23

Cassell's New Biographical Dictionary. (Cassell and Co.)—This will be found

a useful volume, though it is not without defects and mistakes. F. D. Maurice was never Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. It will be news to scholars that "Several of the orations of Gorgias are extant." Two declama- tions of doubtful genuineness remain. There seems some confusion in the following :—" Goring, Lord George (d. 1657), English Royalist, Commander in the Great Rebellion, surrendered Portsmouth." It was Charles Goring who surrendered Ports- mouth. He became Earl of Norwich in 1662, and died in 1671. The selection of names, a work of no little difficulty, seems, on the whole, judicious.