Religio Medici. By Sir Thomas Browne. (G. Bell and Sons.
10s. 6d.)—It was a good idea to issue the 1?eligiv Medici in a stately quarto ; that is to say, if books are to have their deserts. We have examined the text carefully without discovering any faults. We could wish, however, that Sir Thomas Browne might sometimes be allowed to appear in public without being shadowed by Sir Kenelm Digby, whose Observations certainly gave little pleasure to their subject. This edition is furnished with a portrait and a reproduction of the curious engraving which first appeared in the surreptitious edition of 1642, and was adopted by Browne for those which he authorised,—a pretty conclusive proof that Dr. Johnson was right in his conjecture that Browne was not much annoyed by the action of his piratical friend. The binders have mistaken the Browne crest, which was a lion sejant, not a hound.
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