The Everyman Encyclopaedia. Edited by Andrew Boyle.—(J. M. Dent and
Sons. is. net each volume.)—Among recent additions to the "Everyman Library" is an encyclopaedia which is to be completed in twelve volumes. Three of these have already appeared and carry the work from the beginning of the alphabet down to an article on "Church History." An examination of the three volumes shows that the work is well planned. Its design is to serve as a rapid book of reference rather than as a fund of technical information, and it accordingly subdivides its subjects to a great extent under a large number of headings, and tends to avoid general articles upon wide subjects. We have found the information contained in the book accurate so far as we have been able to test it, though there are perhaps more misprints than can be easily forgiven in a work of this character, where exactness is a raison d'etre. For instance, a somewhat cursory glance through the third volume has revealed the following slips ; On page 232, column 1, " registrar " should be "registrary "; on page 355, column 1, "Lescant " should be "Lescaut"; on page 441, column 2, "impassi" should be "impasse"; and on page 621, column 1, "xpriards" should be "xprie-rds." Further editions will doubtless see the correction of such mistakes, apart from which we have no fault to find. The clarity of the type deserves especial commendation.
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