AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LITERARY-STUDENTS., By Ronald B.-McKerrow. ((laren-
don Press. 16s.)-To Shakespearean students Mr. McKerrow is well known for his extremely maul notes on book-produc- tion in the Elizabethan and Early Stuait -periods. He has now developed these into an erudite and valuable work on book-production from the early days up to the end of the eighteenth century, written with special attention to the requirements of the literary critic. There are many books on the art and craft of printing, but none save. this .which is so. lucid, so detailed, and so useful to the student who is concerned to get back from the printed text to what the author wrote. The "chapter on the various ways in which an Elizabethan compositor might go wrong is to be specially commended. But the whole book abounds in valuable and curious detail, and it will interest everyone who cares about the making of books' and their history. •
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