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The Poetry Of Robert Burns Edited By W. E. Henley

and Thomas F. Henderson. Vol. IV. (10s. 6d. net.)—This is the final volume of the most complete edition of Burns hitherto published. The editors have spared no labour, and claim......

Jourmas Of Dorothy Wordsworth. Edited By William Knight....

(Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—Although these volumes follow Professor Knight's edition of Wordsworth's works, they are not numbered consecutively, and will therefore be welcome in......

The Age Of Tennyson. By Hugh Walker, Ma. (george Bell

aud Sons.)—This handbook covers the forty years between 1830 and 1870, a literary period profoundly affected, in Professor Walker's judgment, by the democratic movement at home......

Cairo Of To - Day. By E. A. Reynolds-ball, B.a. "black's...

Books." (A. and C. Black.)—Tourists who want a short and cheap guide-book to Egypt cannot do better than buy this one The information is extraordinarily complete and interesting......

Reference-boons.—burke's Peerage For 1899 (harrison And...

to the Jubilee honours, to record a con- siderable addition to its pages. There were six new peerages, one bishopric (Bristol), and twenty-one Baronets created within the year.......