Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle,
edited by George Wherry, M.A. (Cambridge University Press, 1s. 4d.), is a volume on the linos of "English Literature for Schools." It is a useful edition, not overburdened with notes. Given a sensible teacher, nothing could be better. What a world of good might be done to sundry people whom one need not name if they would read what Carlyle hiss to say about Napoleon !--In the "Pitt Press Series " (same publishers, 2s. 6d.) we have Robert Browning: a Selection of Poems, 1833-1864, editor! by W. T. Young, M.A. Here, too, we have a serviceable volume, conveniently furnished with annotation. One cannot help feeling that the now Copyright Act will save us from this not very edifying spectacle of selections which claim or vi termini to be representative, but are, in fact, limited by legal considerations. Give the whole man, we should say, not half or two-thirds of him.
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