30 OCTOBER 1909, Page 25

In the "Elzevir Library" (Seeley and Co., Is. 6d. per

vol.) we have three elegant little volumes, nicely printed, with charming illustrations in the text. These are Vignettes of Country Life (supplementing an earlier volume, "Vignettes of London Life") ; Wisdom and Humour of Thomas Carlyle ; and Vignettes of The Nine- teenth Century, by W. M. Thackeray, all Selected and Arranged by Norman J. Davidson, M.A.