Mr. J. H. Fowler's English Exercises, Part IL (Macmillan, 38.
6d.), will assuredly be welcomed by all who know the first part. Mr. Fowler's plan is to give an extract, in prose or verse, from some eminent author, to ask questions about it, and to suggest exercises arising out of it. Sometimes he gives faulty sentences and invites corrections ; we observe that in one case he has pilloried the Spectator, but we are content to suffer in a good cause and in good company. Mr. Fowler's selections are interesting in themselves, and should assist the student to acquire a sense of style.—A Year's Work in English, by J. W. Marriott (Harrap, 2e. 6d. net), is an ingenious and useful book, devoted to the elucidation of grammar and syntax by well-chosen extracts and exercises. The first two of the " Ten Rules for Writing English " are " Write neatly. Spell cor- rectly."—Beadinga from Ruskin, edited by Miss Susan Cunnington (Harrap, 2s. 6d. net), is an attractive little book. An unusual and amusing addition to Blackie's Englial Texts, edited by Dr. W. H. D. Rouse, is selected from Thomas Delaney's Elizabethan stories Thomas of Reading and Joh'i Winchcombe (Jack of Newbury) (Blackie, ls.). It is well worth reading by all who are studying the period.
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