Messrs. T. C. and E. C. Jack have issued another
batch of "The People's Books" (6d. net each). Three of the new volumes may be grouped together, since they deal respectively with Marriage and Motherhood, The Baby, and The Training of the Child. Of the others, we may mention that one by Canon Masterman deals with the present and future state of The Church of England, while Mr. Edward Shilleto writes a corresponding volume upon The Hope and Mission of the Free Churches. Various forms of science, such as Meteorology and Geology, are also the subject of mono- graphs, while upon the literary side we notice a study upon Tennyson by Mr. Aaron Watson and A History of English Literature by Mr. Compton-Rickett. We may venture to doubt whether there can be much value in such a very condensed sketch of English Literature as is contained in the last-named volume, though Mr. Compton-Rickett has produced as good an attempt as we can imagine. But what can be said of English literature in a hundred and eleven small pages—especially when Marlowe is only reached on page 31 ? Very little more than a list of names and dates.
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