25 APRIL 1908, Page 41

We have received the second volume of the Dictionary of

National Biography, Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (Smith, Elder, and Co.. 15s. and 21s. net), in its new form. It takes in the lives "Beal, William" to " Browell, William," and is equivalent to Vols. IV.-VI. of the original edition. It is interest- ing to note that out of the hundred and thirty contributors to this section of the work, forty-two have died. Among these are the names of G. E. Bosse, Dean Bradley, Montagu Burrows,

Agnes Stubbs, Bishop Creighton, R. W. Dixon, Dr. Garnett, Sir Richard Jebb, F. W. Dfaitland, Cosmo Monkhouse, Robertson Smith, W. R. W. Stephens (Dean of Winchester), and Cornelius Walford. There is no little distinction in this necrology.