Shelley's Poetical Works. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M.A. (Clarendon Press.
Is. 6d. net.)—Tho "Oxford Shelley" is a fit companion of the " Oxford Wordsworth," brought out not long ago under the same editorial care. It contains, we may say, everything that Shelley wrote. We do not feel sure that verses which the poet deliberately cancelled ought to be perpetuated. And there is a strong case against the printing of passages which he thought fit to omit from prefaces, &c., apparently on account of their acerbity. But it is futile to object. The world wants to know everything, and it has to be humoured.—The Bijou Shakespeare (W. Collins, Sons, and Co., 12s. fid. net) is in six duodecimo volumes (enclosed in a case). There is a biographical introduction, and an essay by Sir Henry Irving on " Shakespeare and Bacon," in which the great actor applies with much force some practical considerations to this curious fancy. The illustra- tion is furnished by a number of pictures of famous actors in Shakespeare characters.
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