30 JANUARY 1897, Page 39

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Dr. Somers reprinted Malory's text word for word, line for line, letter for letter, with an account of his sources. Sir Edward Strachey gave the same text with modern spelling and an inquiry into the influence of this national romance on our moral and intellectual character. And now Mr. Martin gives us Selections from Male ry's Le Morte D'Arthur (Macmillan and Co.), together with notes on Malory's grammar, after the method in which Dr. Abbott has treated the grammar of Shakespeare. And many a reader will be interested to learn that for grammar and style, as well as for story, we have in the "Monte D'Arthur " a great masterpiece of the English language, while still in its transitional state.