26 APRIL 1919, Page 21

Selections front James Boswelfs Life of Samuel Johnson. Chosen and

Edited by R. W. Chapman. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—It must have been as great a pleasure to make these selections from Boswell as it is to read them, except, of course, that Mr. Chapman has had to omit many of-the good things. The book is admirably printed, and contains portraits of Johnson and Boswell and a photograph of the round-robin addressed to the Doctor in regard to his epitaph on Goldsmith. It will be remembered that Johnson in reply said that " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription."