SIR A. W. WARD'S COLLECTED RAPERS.
Collected Papers, Historical, Literary, Ti.avel and Miscellaneous, by Sir Adolphus William Ward ; vols. III., IV., V. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 31s. 6d., 31s. 6d., and 38s. net, respectively), com- plete the collection of the Master of Peterhouse's essays and addresses. The third volume is concerned mainly with the German Renaissance—Barclay, ' Hutten, Reuchlln- and with the age of Shakespeare, and includes the valuable paper of 1919 on "'Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia." The essays in the fourth volume range from -Milton, Dryden and Evelyn to Mrs. Gaskell, on whose life and writings Sir A. W. Ward is perhaps the beat living authority, though he did not go to Manchester until a few months after Mrs. Gaskell's death. A good paper on " The Poems of Bishop Ken" may be noted. In the fifth volume there are, among other things, several interesting historical and descriptive articles on Troves, Danzig and the Frisian Islands,- an old plea—long since heard—for more universities in England, memoirs of Grimm, Curtius, Freeman and Lord Acton, and a valuable paper on Helen Faucit, the accomplished actress. These stately volumes by no means represent the whole of Sir A. W. Ward's literary output, apart from the long list of his books which is prefixed to the fifth volume. The • veteran scholar is to be congratulated on his achievement and on the attractive form which the Cambridge Press has given to his essays.
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