La Coleccion Cervantina de la Sociedad Hispanioa de America :
Ediciones de Don Quijote. Por Romero Seris. (Urbana : University of Illinois. 1 dollar 50 cents.)—Dr. Seris has com- piled, in Spanish, an elaborate descriptive catalogue of the 191 editions of Don Quixote, in the original, which are in the library of the Hispanic Society of America in New York. It is illustrated with photographs and with facsimiles of the title-pages of eight rare editions, including a unique Seville edition of 1731 and a unique Lisbon edition of 1775. Dr. Seris naturally devotes much space to the first impression of the first edition, printed by Cuesta at Madrid in 1605, noting the many minute differences between that and the second impression, and also the changes made in Cuesta's second edition of the same year. Between Cuesta's first and second editions there appeared two separate editions at Lisbon. These early editions of Don 9nixote have long exercised bibliographers ; Dr. Seris's careful statement of tho case is very welcome. Thanks to Mr. A. M. Huntington and other generous members, the Hispanic Society has formed a collection of the works of Cervantes which is rivalled only by Barcelona, according to Dr. Seris. The Society commemorated the tercentenary of Cervantes' death—he died in the same year as Shakespeare—by exhibiting its collection, and this valuable book has grown out of that exhibition.
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