A Medley of Notables. By G. F. S. (Partridge.)—The compiler
has selected some seventy names of statesmen, soldiers, writers, &c., two- thirds of them being English men or women, has given some notable paragraph or sentence out of their writings and recorded talk as "what they said," and some forcible criticisms on or descriptions of their character and works as "what others said of them." The selection of names might have been improved ; some account, for instance, might have been taken of the men of the ancient world. We have no one mentioned before St. Augustine, and no one between him and St. Bernard. Otherwise the work has been well done. With this we may class Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakespeare (Hogg and Son), a col- lection of nearly three thousand good things dug from that inexhaustible- mine.
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