Among new editions we must give a prominent place to
Messrs. Blackwood's cheap re-issue of Adam Bede, as the first volume of the stereotyped edition of George Eliot's novels. Nothing can be more compact and handy than the volume itself, and the type is perfection. Wo are sorry that we cannot speak so well of the illustrations, which, with the exception of the title-page and the picture of Arthur Donnithorne meeting Hetty in the wood, are either coarse, meaningless, or grotesque. But the edition is extremely cheap, and would be more than worth the money without the illustrations, which are thus to some extent thrown into the bargain. From Messrs:, Bell and Daldy we have a third edition of the Sabrince Corolla, " not/ emended, but augmented and reduced in price," if we may reverse the process gone through by the contributors to the work, and turn the elegant Latin preface into careless English. Messrs. Routledge have published an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson in one volume which sells at 3s. 6d. The print is clear, but it seems to us very small, and we can hardly think that any one who make 3 the acquaintance of Boswell for the first time in this minute character will
read him through without hurting his eyes. However, we cannot undertake to carry typical eyes in our head for the benefit of the world at large. Some men have strong eyes which nothing affects, others have such weak eyes that they abstain from reading altogether. Messrs. Routledge's edition of the life of Johnson must be recommended to the first of these classes.
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