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In the series of "Carmelite Classics" (Horace Marshall and Son,

is. 4d. per vol.) we have three volumes of illustrations of English Literature. The plan is to give either complete pieces, in prose and verso, or such portions as may be easily detached from their context, selected from the principal authors of the period. Of periods there are three. Part I., by 0. L. Thomson, includes writers from Wyatt to Webster, and is furnished with a glossary ; Part II., by G. B. Sellon, from Herrick to Dryden ; Part III., by C. L. Thomson, from Carlyle to Stevenson.—In the " Belles-Lettres Series" (D. C. Heath and Co., 3s. 6d. net), in the second section (" Middle English Literature "), under the general editorship of Dr. Ewald Fliigel, we have The Owl and the Nightingale, Edited by John Edwin Wells, A.M.