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Eupltnee. By John Lyly. Edited by M. W. Croll and

H. Clemons. I(Routledge. as. net.)—This is a good annotated edition of Lyly's :famous romance, such as students of Elizabethan literature have long weeded.- Mr. Croll's introductory essay on the sources-of the Euphuistic, rhetoric deserves attention. He shows that the accepted German theory of Lyly as a mere copyist of Guevara, the courtly Spanish author, is :wholly inadequate. Lyly's ornate and stilted prose is really a survival of the mediaeval rhetoric.