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NEW EDITIONS.—We have received from Messrs. G. Bell and Sons

the second edition of Chaucer's Poetical Works, 6 vols., edited by Richard Morris, LL.D., with Memoir by Sir Harry Nicholas. The first edition was published twenty-five years ago, in the series known as " The Aldine Poets." The second contains an essay by Mr. A. J. Ellis on " Chaucer's Pronunciation," which should be helpful towards the appreciation of his verse, and a " Scheme of the Order of the Canterbury Tales, and the Halting and Sleeping Places of the Pilgrims on their Journey to Canter- bury with Chaucer," by Mr. A. J. Furnivall ; as also some earlier versions of some of the poems. But we see no notice of some notable discoveries that have been made lately of Chaucerian poems, or what are considered so by scholars of repute.