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A whole host of new books are published in Messrs.

Dent's series, The King's Treasuries of Literature. Most of them are well-remembered classics—Goldsmith, Arnold, Shakespeare. The two most interesting reprints are Trelawny's The Adven- tures of a Younger Son, and Caroline Dale Snedeker's Theras, the Story of an Athenian Boy. Trelawny was one of the most audacious and magnificent of men : and if he lied, he lied well. Caroline Dale Snedeker's romance is an attempt to recreate in simple and vivid scenes the life of Greece in the classical age.