A handsome edition of David Copperfiekl, printed in good type
and unusually well bound (Bath : Cedric Chivers, 8s. 6d. net), inaugurates a new series, called The Readers' Classic,s, which deserves a wide popularity. The series is edited by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Mr. Holbrook Jackson and Mr. R. Brintley Johnson, and its distinguishing feature will be the appreciative essays and comments from well-known authors that are to be prefixed to each volume. Thus David Copperfield is com- mended, from diverse standpoints, by Mr. William Archer, M. Legouis, Mrs. Meynell, Mr. F. M. Hueffer and others, and
tributes to Dickens's greatest book are quoted from the writings of Take, Brunetiere, M. Anatole France, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Gissing, Lady Ritchie and W. D. Howells, to mention a few of the authors cited. The editors acknowledge the help of that judicious critic, M. Henry Davray, in selecting the French comments, among which that of Brunetiere is one of the most generous and perhaps the most unexpected.
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