10 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 25

Selections from Tennyson. With Introduction and Notes by F. J.

Rowe, MA., and W. T. Webb, M.A. (Macmillan )—This is a convenient and useful volume. It is particularly profitable for a student to acquire a taste for some great writer by being introduced to him in a book of well-chosen extracts. But it is to be hoped that no one will make the sample serve instead of the thing itself. The introduction contains some intelligent and sympathetic criticism, and the notes are to the point. "Dora" receives an interesting illustration from Miss Mitford's little tale of Dora Creswell. The editor should know that Homer does not speak of Nester as Tpryipow. The epithet comes from the Anthology, and, indeed, expresses a non-Homeric exaggeration. The Greek generally is incorrectly printed.