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NRW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—Adonais. By P. B. Shelley. (Methuen and

Co. 2s. net.)—This, the first of an intended series of similar reprints, is an exact reproduction of the edition of 1821, published at Pisa. It contains the poet's wrathful preface, and the imperfections of half-corrected proofs,—the motto, for instance, four verses from Moschus's epitaph on Bien, is very imperfectly accentuated, and the eta with which the last line begins is changed into some typographical sign.—Studies in Jocular Literature. By W. C. Hailitt. (Elliot Stook. is. 6d. net.) —A volume of "The Book Lovers' Library," edited by H. B. Wheatley.—In " Cassell's National Library" (Cassell and Co., 6d. net each), Tennyson's Poems, a Selection, with Intro- duction, by A. T. Quiller-Couch ; The Diary of John Evelyn, with Introduction by Austin Dobson; and The Pour Georges, by W. M. Thackeray, with Introduction by L. F. Austin.