The "Unit Library." (" Unit Library" Company.)—The purpose of this
series of publications is "to place the chief works of literature within the reach of every person." The name of " Unit" is explained by the fact that the basis of cost is made twenty-five pages for id. To this must be added ld. for a paper. 5d for a cloth, and ls. 2d. for a leather, cover. Four speci- mens are before us as we write,— Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Darwin's Origin of Species, and Emerson's English Traits. These would cost in paper covers 51d , 4d., lid., 5d., containing as they do nine, six, twenty, and eight units respectively. The first is bound in cloth and costs 90., the second in leather and costs ls. 3d. (We must explain that the 5d. and ls. 2d. include the ld. for a paper cover, which is charged in all cases.) The paper is unglazed and pleasant to the eye ; the printing is good. The difficulty of copyright cannot, of course, be got over. Horace, for instance, appears in Francis's translation. It would be better not to include the poet at all.
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