NEW EDITIONS.—The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Thomas Medwin.
With an Introduction and Commentary by H. Buxton Forman, C.B. (Humphrey Milford. 12s. 6d. net.) —Medwin's Life of Shelley has been described by a recent writer as "a bad book, full of inaccuracies," a description with which Mr. Buxton Forman does not quarrel. He himself indeed remarks that in its original form and without a com- mentary it "concerns specialists alone in this twentieth century." In his old age, however, Medwin made numerous manuscript corrections upon a copy of the original 1847 edition, and it is now reprinted for the first time in this revised form, together with such amplifications and correc- tions as Mr. Buxton Forman's great learning can supply. —Our Eternity. By Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. (Methuen and Co. 5s. net.)—M. Maeterlinck's essay on Death, which was published two years ago, is now reissued in an expanded form. The new matter is chiefly a consideration of the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research, which M. Maeterlinck shows himself to have followed with much attention. —The Life of Napoleon I. By John Holland Rose, Litt.D. (G. Bell and Sons. 6s. net.)—Dr. Rose's well-known Life, after running through many editions, has now been issued for the first time in a single volume of convenient size. The work has been revised in some details.—We have also received copies of new editions of Wall and Water Gardens, by Gertrude Jekyll (Country Life, Ltd., 12s. 6d. net.), and of A Tarpaulin Muster, a volume of short stories, by Mr. John Masefield (Grant Richards, 3s. 6d. net).
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