Sheridan's School for Seward has seldom been so attractively presented
as it is in an edition published by Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., with illustrations by L. Rossi. Outside, we have an excellent imitation of the medallion miniatures which were in vogue when the comedy was produced. Within, the illus- trations, mostly in colour, and doing no little credit, we may say in passing, to the English printing-house which has reproduced them, are characteristic and spirited. Lady Teazle discovered behind the screen is particularly good, though the artist has not made the resemblance close enough when we have Lady Teazle pronouncing the epilogue.
We may class together as telling anew, and in a convenient form, stories which have been told before :—Famous Artists, by Sarah K. Bolton (Nelson and Sons), the "famous artists" are Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Murillo, Rubens, and Rembrandt ; Leaders in Unknown Lands, by Arthur Montefiore (S. W. Partridge and Co.), containing accounts of the travels of Livingstone, Richard Burton, John M. Stuart (the Australian explorer), Wallace (the naturalist), Stanley, and Nansen ; and Short Biographies for the People (Religious Tract Society),—this is the eighth volume of the series, and contains short lives of St. Polycarp, St. Ambrose, Fenelon, Henry Martyn, Richard Hooker, John Howe, Robert Hall, William Chalmers Brown, Dr. George Wilson, Adam Sedgwick, and Mackay of Uganda.
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