6 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 30

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FEW more delightful-presents could be found- than this Ilasle-

wood edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock, printed by the Chiswick Press in the eighteenth-century manner, with the plates by Du Guernier. The text includes Pope's latest cor.

rections, a neat bibliographical note is tucked away at the end where only the scholar or the enthusiast need find it, and it is particularly pleasing to find the title printed in gold directly on the back instead of an ugly and annoying paper label. The eighteenth century is now in fashion, and if Boswell's Life of Johnson is its Bible, the Rape of the Lock is its breviary. Messrs. Etchells and Macdonald are to be con- gratulated on this act of piety.