Sir Sidney Colvin has just brought out a new edition
of Vie Poems of John Keats (Cbatto and Windus, 2 vols., 15s. net), which is most welcome. In the first place, it is beautifully produced, being printed in the well-known Florence Cype designed by Mr. H. P. Horne and bound with no less taste than the printing deserves. Secondly, although the book is clearly intended for the reader rather than the student (it contains no footnotes and no commentary of any sort), it is of interest because the poems are arranged so far as possible in chronological order. An attempt in the same direction bad already been made by Lord Houghton in his "Aldine" edition, but in that case without sufficient care or information. The industry and learning of Sir Sidney Colvin have produced in the present volumes a very different result. It may be added that the new and not particularly interesting sonnets that were first published in the Times last year are included in the edition.
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