Messrs. Downey and Co. are publishin g , in conjunction with Messrs.
Roberts, of Boston, U.S., a handsome edition (price £25) of the "Works of Honors de Balza,c," translated by Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley. It is in forty volumes, well printed on hand-made paper, with handsome margins, and to judge from the specimens before us, The Chouans, well illustrated (the artist is for this volume M. G. Bourgain, his designs being reproduced in photogravure by MM. Goupil and Co.) There are seven, and the same number is given to each volume of this series. Replicas of the plates are also furnished. It is sufficient to say that for general appearance the edition of this great novelist, whom every one would rank very high, though not according to the verdict that pronounces him to be the "greatest master of romantic fiction." Balzac would hardly have called himself "romantic."
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