The Annual Register, 1897. (Longmans and Co.)—This "Review of Public
Events at Home and Abroad" continues to fulfil its useful function in politics, literature, and art, as well as to give a chronicle of personal and non-personal facts. It main- tains, on the whole, and rightly maintains, a neutral attitude. It records, for the most part, without censure, though less often without praise. In literature this makes the review somewhat .colourless, but we must own that we do not see any alternative. Fiction is deliberately omitted, nor can we blame this decision, but a place might have been found for classical scholarship.
Messrs. Blackwood and Sons have just published a useful edition, with an excellent portrait, of the Scots Poems of Robert Fergusson, the pioneer and model of Burns. The type is clear, the paper is good, the glossary is condensed but adequate, and the price is only a shilling.
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