24 JULY 1926, Page 32

Swinburnc is master of a stately prose that marches to

it conclusion like a ',Guards' platoon and in Vol. XI. and NIL of the Bonehureh edition of the Complete Works of Algerno,, Charles Swinburnc (a sumptuous edition published by Messrs. Heinemann in twenty volumes at 25 guineas the set) we may find in all the beauty of good type and ample margins essays which will surely live, such as that on Shakespeare and tik contemporaries.