5 SEPTEMBER 1896, Page 27

Christ's Hospital Recollections of Lamb, Coleridge, and Leigh Hunt. Edited

by R. Brimley Johnson. With 40 Illustrations. (George Allen.)—The illustrations in this volume, considering how soon the famous hospital in Newgate Street is likely to be shorn of its glory, are highly interesting. Mr. Johnson's notes are brief and pointed, the get-up is excellent, and the matter is attractive, or would be were it not that most readers are familiar with it already. Who is there who cares for the great school, so long familiar to Londoners, who does not know what its three most distinguished scholars have written about it already ? Yet the book may be welcome to a less instructed public, if such there be, and both editor and publisher have done their best to make it generally welcome.