23 JULY 1898, Page 23

Lyrical Ballads. By William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Reprinted

from the edition of 1778, with an Introduction by T. Hutchinson. (Duckworth.)—Mr. Hutchinson gives an interesting account of the origin of the book and of its reception by the critics. He also touches on the curious mixture of kindness and bitterness in the relations of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey There are good photogravure reproductions of the well-known portraits of the two former. The book is prettily bound, and printed in good type on thick paper.