Good Samaritans. By W. Davenport Adams. (W. Swan Sonnen- schein
and Co.)—We have no wish to deal unkindly with Mr. Adams, whose name as an industrious worker in literature has been familiar to us for many years. Still, we must say plainly that he has not fulfilled, in respect to the volume now before us, his duty to the public and to the anther to whom he has had recourse. "I put for- ward this volume," he says, "as avowedly a compilation only." "I am indebted to a considerable number of authorities." Every chapter should have been furnished with a list of these authorities, and everything borrowed should have been acknowledged in the usual way as a quotation. If Mr. Adams will neglect these main require- ments of literary duty, he must not be surprised, however excel- lent his intentions, to have some hard words used to him.
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