12 JUNE 1909, Page 26

Milton Memorial Lectures. Edited by Percy. W. Ames. (II. Frowde.

Os. not.)—These lectures, ten in number, were delivered last autumn under the auspices of the Royal Society of Literature. They are of various importance and length. Dr. Rosedale's contribution on Milton's religion and polemics, ecclesiastical as well as theological, occupying as it does more than a third of the whole, is perhaps the most important. It is a very lucid account of the subject. Professor Dowden analyses with much skill the argument of the Temptation in "Paradise Regained." We may also mention "Milton and the Liberty of the Press," and a good paper by Professor Saintsbury on "Milton and the Grand Style."