NEW EDITIONG.—WO have received a new edition of Oxford, by
Andrew Lang (Seeley and Co., 6s.) It is needless to say any- thing at this time of day of Mr. Lang's sympathetic reflections and description. Oxford and St. Andrews share the good fortune of having this vales sacer to proclaim their beauties. A word must be said about the illustrations. These are many and good, and good, too, in a variety of ways. We see among the names Alfred Dawson, Lancelot Speed, Brunet-Desbaines, and Pennell. There is, too, an anonymous artist,—he has given us "Folly Bridge," "The Upper River," and other scenes with a pencil which, one thinks, Mr. Pennell might have used.—Another new edition is Common Sense Cookery, by Colonel A. Kenney-Herbert (E. Arnold, 6s. net). The author has kept up to the times, has recognised the change to a more simple conception of a dinner, "a short but carefully thought-out menu," and modified his book accordingly.
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