REPRINTS AND NEW EDITIONS.—Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Knight's
Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale. Edited by Andrew Ingraham. (Macmillan and Co. Is. net.)—The editor supplies practical directions for reading aloud (he seems doubtful whether we really reach the Chaucer pronunciation,— anyhow, we can imitate Chaucerian scholars). He gives some specimens of various readings ; and he furnishes a continuous annotation, a descriptive index of proper names, and a glossary. There cannot well be a more convenient introduction to Chaucer than this volume.—The Poetical Works of John Keats. The "Hampstead Edition." Edited, with Introduction and Memoir, by Walter S. Scott. (J. Finch and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The type and paper are all that could be wished. The introduction gives the chief biographical and bibliographical facts ; but no edition of Keats ought, we think, to be published without some recog- nition of the most meritorious labours of Mr. Forman
Old Cookery Books. By W. Carew Hazlitt. (Elliot Stock.)—A volume in "The Booklover's Library," appearing - under the general editorship of Mr. H. B. Wheatley.—Emma. By Jane Austen. With Introduction by Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.)—Mr. Austin Dobson reviews the literary history of Emma (which contains, it will be remembered, Mr. Woodhouse's immortal saying, "Let us all have some gruel"). It was published in 1816, having been somewhat disparagingly reviewed in the Quarterly of the previous
October, a literary authority which certainly has made an extra- ordinary number of blunders.—George H. C. Macgregor : a Biography. By the Rev. Duncan Campbell Macgregor. (Hodder and Stoughton. 35. 6d.)—The Days of Auld Lang Syne. By Ian Maclaren. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d.)—When a Man's Single. By J. M. Barrie. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d.)—Chris- towel/ and Alice Lorraine. By the Author of "Lorna Doone." (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6d. each.)
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