Raw Enrmexe.—The Poetry of Robert Burns. Edited by William Ernest
Henley and Thomas F. Henderson. 4 vols. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. Os. net.)—This is a reprint of the "Centenary Edition." It bears the date, we observe, of 190L We may, however, remind our readers of its existence. Certainly the four volumes, with more than eighteen hundred pages, revised and annotated by thoroughly competent editors, are cheap enough to satisfy even Mr. Henniker Heaton and his memorialists.—We have also received another instalment of " Everyman's Library" M. Dent and Co., is. net per vol.) Among them we see Grote's History of Greece, 12 vole. In some respects Grote is defective. Schliemann's discoveries, and all the knowledge of prehistoric civilisations that has resulted from them, are of later date. But the historic epoch has never been more amply, and, allowing for certain democratic prepossessions, themselves* a reaction against Mitford's Toryism, more satis- factorily, described. Another work is The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, by George Dennis, 2 vols. This book was first published in 1848; a revised- edition appeared in 1878. Pro- fessor Lindsay furnishes a brief introduction, in which he mentions the problem of the Etruscan language, with Corssen's futile effort to solve it. We have plenty of Etruscan writing, but the secret remains undiscovered. What we want is a bilingual inscription or writing of some sort ; Professor Lindsay thinks that these have not yet been looked for in the right place. Mean- while Dennis's book remains the best authority available on its subject. We may also mention Greece under the Romans, by George Finlay, LL.D., and The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, by Richard Hooker, 2 vols., with Introduction by the Rev. R. Bayne. The introduction is mainly biographical, and includes a sketch of University life as it was in Hooker's time. Hooker was admitted as a chorister to C.C.C, Oxford, in 1568, when he was fourteen, and became a Fellow eleven years later. VoL L contains Books I.-IV; VoL H., Book V., " Fragments of, an Answer to a Christian Letter," and George Cranmer's letter. Both volumes are furnished with notes.—In the "World's Classics" (H. Frowde, ls. per vol.) we have, among other books, a work not as well known as it deserves to be, Lives of the Novelists, by _Sir Walter Scott. —Asiatic Studies. By Sir Alfred Lyall. First and Second- Series. 2 vols. (John Murray. 5s. net each vo1)— The first 'series of these "Religious and Social Studies" deals with India ; to the subject also belongs the first chapter of the second series, entitled "Letters from Amadeo Shastri," and chap. 6; another chapter gives an appreciation of Dr. Frazer's " Golden Bough"; chaps. 2 and 7 are concerned with China. The latter, read in the light of subsequent events, is interesting even beyond the-very high average of Sir A. Lynn's writings. —Wordsworth, by F. W. Robertson (B. H. Allenson, ls. net), belonging to the series of " Booklover's Booklets."—Scottish Rings: to Scottish History, 1005-1625. By Sir Archibald H. Dunbar. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 1.2s. 6d. net.)
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