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In the " Whitehall Edition " of Shakespeare (Archibald Con-

stable) we have the third out of a proposed twelve volumes. It

contains the three comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The plan is to arrange partly by subject and partly according to order of composition. Vols. contain ten comedies belonging to the sixteenth century, reckoning the year 1600 as part of it. Vol. IV. is to have the four comedies that are later than 1600 (commonly The Tempest, which is manifestly one of the latest in date, stands first among the plays). Vols. V.-VII. will contain the histories, nine in all, but leaving for Vol. VIII. Henry VIII. and the Poems. Vols. IX.-XII.

will contain thirteen tragedies. — In " Blackie's School and Home Library " (Blackie and Son) we have Wanderings in South America, the United States, and the Antilles. By Charles Waterton.