6 AUGUST 1898, page 24

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century publishes several most readable papers this month, besides Sir Wemyss Reid's eulogium on Mr. Gladstone, which is interesting from its writer's enthu-......

School-books.

The Medea of Euripides. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Clinton E. S. Headlam. (Cambridge University Press.)—The Prolegomena are brief but sufficient. It is need- less......

King Arthur And The Table Round : Tales Chiefly After

the OlI French of Crestien of Troyes. With an Introduction and Notes. By W. W. Newell. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.A. 16s.)— We know very little about Crestien......

Current Literature.

The Edinburgh Review opens with one of those papers which give a real value to the quarterlies. The numerous class of people who are not quite sure what a young Czech is, and......