Messrs. Methuen send us the first volume of A History
of England, by Mr. Belloc. There are to be four volumes, pro- ceeding from the Roman Invasion to the opening of the South
African War. .
We have been eagerly waiting for Professor Grierson't ed tion of The Poems of John Milton (The Florence Press): H .s main aims have been to present a pure text in a beautiful type, and to give the poems in chronological order. As he remarks in his preface to the volume now published (The Shorter. Poems, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes), it is
portant for a student of Milton's art to realize that Milton had composed a great amount of Latin verse before he wrote any considerable poem in English. On Milton and on Landor the discipline of writing original poems in Latin left its mark ; it tended to make the use of the English language more self-' conscious, more controlled ; neither poet bubbled over into verse.
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