24 OCTOBER 1908, Page 26

Messrs. Cassell and Co. are publishing a very attractive set

of books under the title of "Handy Classics" (15. 6d. net per vol.) The books are agreeable to look at, and pleasant to handle. They are bound with a substance which has something of the look of velveteen, and they can be easily carried in the pocket. The volumes before us are The Banquet of Plato, and other Pieces Translated and Original, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, with Intro- duction by Henry Morley ; Sir Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, with Introduction by A. D. Innes, and The Lady of The Lake, with Introduction by Henry Morley ; Charles Dickens's Christmas Books and Selections, in two volumes ; and George Eliot's Silas Hamer, with Introduction by Stuart J. Reid.