NEW EDITIONS.—Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli. By Professor Pasquale
Villari. Translated by Linda Villari. (T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is the first complete edition of Professor Villari's great book to appear in an English form. The author explains in his preface the difference between this and the earlier editions, mutilated as they were to meet what no doubt seemed an imperative necessity. All the documents illus- trative of the text are now given, and two suppressed chapters are restored. We are bound to say that in a work of such proportions, more than two hundred and fifty thousand words, there was some reason for suppressing a chapter on Art, with which, it is conceded, Machiavelli had no concern; but that which gave the judgments passed on Machiavelli is another matter. Some additions and corrections have been made. Alto- gether, the publisher's enterprise in sending out this edition at so very low a price is much to be commended.—Classical and Foreign Quotations. By Francis H. King. (J. Whitaker and Sons. 6s.)—This is the third edition of a good book carefully put together and in a creditable condition of correctness. Of course there is practically no limit to such a collection as this. If we do not see all the quotations that we expect, we have to remember that space is space, and that every newcomer means something like the exclusion of an old. A few occur to us :— " Diffieile est laudare puerum, non enim res sed spes est" ; "aestate pneri si valent, antis &scant "; " equi frenati antis in ore est."
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