In the "Little Library" (Methuen and Co., Is. 6d. net)
we have a very pleasing little volume, The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. This is reprinted from the fifth edition, the last that received Walton's own corrections. It is further recommended by an introduction signed "J. B.," whom we may probably identify with the editor of " Musa Piscatrix." Of Walton himself there is nothing new to say, but the bibliography of his works is always interesting. Mr. Buchan, too, says some good things about the book itself.—In the "Caxton Series" (G. Newnes, 2e. 6d. and 3s.) we have another delightful little book, The Poems of John Milton. It is bound in cloth or limp lambskin, according to price, and printed on India paper, which admits of more than five hundred pages being brought into a very small compass. —Messrs. Methuen publish a handsome edition, well illustrated by Mr. A. Garth Jones, of The Essays of Elia (10e. 6d.) —Messrs. Chapman and Hall publish the fourth volume in the " Complete Edition of Charles Dickens's Works," containing Christmas Books, Master Humphrey's Clock, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, more than nine hundred pages in all, with the familiar illustra- tions.
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