. SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ucetim in this column does not ncesssuity :11J.14 Is xBaxp•a:a' rams The Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by Sir A. W. 1Vard and A. R. Waller. Vols. XIH.-XIV. (Cambridge University Press. 9s. net each.)—This large co-operative undertaking is now complete. Like The Cambridge Modern History, it varies a good. deal in quality, but most of the contributors have taken pains to be accurate in their statements of fact oven if their eritioisms often provoke dissent. The very lengthy bibliographies add much to the value of the work for purposes of reference. The thirteenth volume, dealing with the great Victorians, has interesting chapters on Carlyle, by Professor J. Cf. Robertson ; Tennyson, by Professor Crierson ; the Brownings,-by Sir Henry Jones ; Thackeray, by Mr. A. H. Thompson ; Dickens; by Professor Saintsbury ; and on Meredith, Butler, andeCissing, by Mr. W. T. Young. The fourteenth volume treats of many subjects, such as the modern historians, by Sir A. W. Ward ; the growth of journalism, reviewed by Mr. J. S. R. Phillips ; Anglo-Irish literature of all period.% by Mr. A. P. Craves ; Anglo-Indian literature, by Professor E. F. Oaten ; and the literature-of the Dominions, including a pleasant note on South African poetry, by Sir T. H. Warren. Professor Murison brings up the roar with a curiously instructive essay on the many changes in the language since Shakespeare's. time. Net many people know, for instance, that " ache " was pronounced. " aitch " even up to the time of Thackeray, who puns on the word in Pendennis.
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