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CAMBRIDGE PLAIN TEXTS. — The Cambridge Univer- sity Press has issued a

further series of " Cambridge Plain Texts in English " (1s. 3d. net each). These are, the first book of Bacon's The Advancement of Learning, a work which is, in effect, a defence of all learning that " enducth men's minds with a true sense of the frailty of their persons, the casuality of their fortunes, and the dignity of their soul and vocation " ; Richard Hooker's Preface to the Laws of Eccle- siastical Polity, a noble and stately example of the grand manner in prose : and Five Essays of Montaigne taken from the third edition of Florio. A French text uniform with these is Montalembert's De l'avenir politique de rAngleterre, a justly admired appreciation of English institutions.