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(A. Moring, 7s. 6d. net), The Gull's Horn-Book, by Thomas Dekker, Edited by R. B. McKerrow. Dekker (1570-1638), who has his best title to fame in having collaborated with Massinger in writing "The Virgin Martyr of Antioch "—did Massinger set him to write the odious underplot ?—published this book in 1609. It has been reprinted some half-dozen times since, the three last editions dating 1872, 1884, 1892, and belonging to the literary revival which has been so active in this generation. It is scarcely necessary to say that the form of the present volume does justice —one might even say, more than justice—to Dekker's work.— In the "Dryden House Memoirs" (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 3s. 6d. net), Historical Memoirs of My Oura Time, by Sir N. William Wraxall, Bart.—In the "Golden Treasury Series" (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d. net), The Poems of Thomas Campbell, Selected and Arranged by Lewis Campbell. Professor Campbell has furnished an excellent biographical and critical introduction. Among the
" But the day-star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rase o'er his own native isle of the Ocean."
It rose, i.e., in the West. The same error occurs in "Caroline"
"0 sacred to the fall of day, Queen of propitious stars appear, And early rise, and long delay, When Caroline herself is here " "How many persons in the twentieth century," remarks the editor, "make the same mistake about the new moon ! " Well, they have excellent authority. What does Virgil say when Aeneas catches a glimpse of Dido in the Mourning Fields ?—
"primo qui surgere mense
Ant videt ant vidisse putat per nubile lunam."
—Poems by Sir Lewis Morris. (G. Routledge and Sons. is.)
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