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Sweet Arden. By George Morley. (T. N. Foulis. 2s. 6d.

net.) —This "book of the Shakespeare Country" will be found interesting. Warwick, as, in a way, the capital of the country; the Forest of Arden, with the dialect proper to it, standing in close relation, Mr. Morley tells us, to Shakespeare's vocabulary. popular beliefs ; Stratford-on-Avon town, with the Shakespeare localities, Shottery and Charlcote, are treated in this volume. Of course, all the things mentioned by Mr. Morley are not-peculiar

to this region. All over England men touch their bats to a single raven, though Warwickshire children may be singular in speaking of their nails as "the Ten Commandments." The illustrations in colour have not been reproduced with invariable SUCC088.