The Penny Poets, (Review of Reviews Office),
include "Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, Parts I. and IL," "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," "Paradise Lost, Part II. (abridged)," " Moore's Irish Melodies,". "Selections from the Poems of W. Cullen Bryant," "The Story of St. George and the Dragon from the Faerie Queene," "Keats," "Lady of the Lake," "Shakespeare's Julius Cmsar," "Pope's Essay on Man, and other Poems," "Tom Hood's Poems, Grave and Gay," a good mass of reading, with a box to keep them in, for a shilling.
We have received the third and concluding volume of The Political Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, illustrated with cartoons and sketches from Punch (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.) It begins with the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill in the beginning of 1887, pleasantly pictured as startling Lord Salisbury as a " Jack in-the-Box,"—" not fully explained" is the descrip- tion of this unexpected event; the melancholy failure that came not long after, and must have already began to cast its shadow, is explanation enough. The story is carried on as far as Mr. Gladstone's declaration in the letter to Mr. Cavan that "when Parliament dissolved he should not seek re-election." It is a pathetic coincidence that these were the last words penned by Mr. E. J. Milliken before his sudden death. The work that he left practically accomplished has had its formal completion supplied by Mr. H. W. Lucy.
There seems to be still a demand, we are glad to say, for Mr. Kingston's books. He has had many imitators and followers, but has been seldom surpassed, or even equalled. Among his best tales are the two which have been now republished, not, of course, for the first time. These are The Three Commanders and The Three Admirals, by W. H. G. Kingston (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—We have also received from Messrs. S. W. Partridge and Co. a new edition of Mark Beaworth : a Tale of the Indian Ocean, by the same author.
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