NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS. - We have received some important
and interesting reprints, to which we would gladly give more space were the claims upon us not so urgent. The first book on the list is, indeed, not a reprint at all,—The Nobility of Women, by William Bercher (Printed for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club). The MS. came into the hands of Mr. C. B. Marlay at the shop of Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Marlay has generously printed it for the benefit of his fellow-members of the club. Mr. R. Warwick Bond furnishes the introduction and notes. William Bercher was mixed up with the scheming which sought to put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. He was in the service of the Duke of Norfolk. He sat for Great Yarmouth (if he is the same as a certain William Barker), and he seems to have combined the occupations of secretary and man of letters. His testimony did much to bring home the Duke's guilt in the matter of the Ridolphi con- spiracy. "The Nobylytye of Wymen" is a writing of the Boccaccio type, a dialogue of a party of ladies and gentlemen concerning the relative merits of the sexes.—Queen Elizabeth, Amy .Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester, a reprint of Leicester's "Commonwealth," Edited by F. J. Burgoyne (Longmans and Co., 7s. 6d. net).—The Defence of Poetry, by Sir Philip Sidney, Knight (Cambridge University Press, Li is. and ..t1 lls. 6d.) —In the series of "English Classics" (same publishers), Poems by Richard Crashaw, edited by A. R. Waller (4s. 6d. net). —In the " Pocket-Book Classics" (G. Bell and Sons, is. fid. net), Hamlet.—In the "York Library" (same publishers, 2s. and 3s.), The Friend, by S. T. Coleridge.—In the series of "The Smaller Classics" (Grant Richards, 6d. net per vol.), English Cradle Songs, and A Shropshire Lad.—" The Works of Mark Rutherford," 5 vols. (T. Fisher -Unwin, Is. net per vol.) The volumes before us are The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Mark Rutherford's Deliverance, and The Revolution in Tanner's Lane. —In the "Handy Illustrated Pocket Novels" (Collins' Clear- Type Press, 2s. per vol.), Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott ; and David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.
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