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The Hampstead Garner. Compiled By A. M. C. (elliot Stock.

3s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a selection of passages in verse, one for every day in the year, taken from poets who were born in Hampstead, or wrote while they lived there, or have......

London Topographical Society. Vol. Iii. (for The Society,...

Chiswick Press.)—This volume includes the pro- ceedings of two Annual Meetings of the Society, addresses by Vice-Presidents (Messrs. Laurence Gomme and F. G. Hilton Price), and......

Matthew Arnold's Merope And The Electra Of Sophorles...

by R. Whitelaw. Edited by J. Churton Collins. (The Clarendon Press. 38. 6d.)—Professor Churton Collins is to be congratulated on the happy thought which finds an expression in......

The Victoria History Of Berkshire. Edited By P. H....

M.A., and William Page. Vol. L (A. Constable and Co. 4 vols. £6 Os. net.)—The scheme of the "Victoria County Histories," and, we may add, the character of its execution, are by......

English Costume. Painted And Described By Dion Clayton...

and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is the second of the four volumes which Mr. Calthrop proposes to give to this subject. It takes in the "Middle Ages," a term used in this......

Sweet Arden. By George Morley. (t. N. Foulis. 2s. 6d.

net.) —This "book of the Shakespeare Country" will be found interesting. Warwick, as, in a way, the capital of the country; the Forest of Arden, with the dialect proper to it,......