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Some excellent reading may be found with convenient help for

a due appreciation of it in Nineteenth Century Essays, edited with Introduction and Notes by George Sampson. (Cambridge Uni- versity Press. 2a.)—In this volume, which belongs to the " Pitt Press Series," wo have seven essays, an admirable selection. Carlyle's " On History," Macaulay's " Ranke's History of the Popes," Bagehot's " Shakespeare the Man," Newman's " Litera- ture," Ruskin's " Sir Joshua and Holborn," M. Arnold's " Marcus Aurelius," and Stevenson's "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured."—Along with this wo may mention some volumes of the " Poetry and Life" Series. (Harrap and Co. ls. net.) Those now before us are Gray, Coleridge, and J. B. Lowell.