We may mention together various volumes of Selections. Mr. Humphry
Ward has added a fourth volume to the series edited by him,—The English Poets : Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers. (Macmillan.)—The volume includes froin Wordsworth to Tennyson. Among the smaller names—the greater it is not necessary to give—we find W. L. Bowles, William Tennant, Emily Brontd, James Thomson, Arthur O'Shaughnesay.—A Book of English Prose, 1387-1649. Selected by William Ernest Henley and Charles Whibley. (Methuen and Co.)—Among the earlier extracts—there are eighty-six in all— we have extracts from Sir John Mandeville, and the account of the Battle of St. Albans found in the "Barton Letters." Brave Transtunary Things from the Works of Ben Jonson. Selected by Alexander B. Grosart. (Elliot Stock.)—A Selection front the Writings of Dean Stanley. Edited by Archdeacon Aglen. (John Murray.)—The Century _Reciter, edited by Leopold Wagner (F. Warne and Co.), contains nearly a hundred extracts in prose and verse, suitable for recitation, from various popular authors. .
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