Recent Reprints
THE C.U.P. have reissued William C. Braith- waite's standard work, The Beginnings of Quakerism, which was first published in 1912 and twice reprinted. The new issue is a second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury, and with a new preface by L. Hugh Doncaster. Numer- ous small Changes have been made in the text, but in the main the work has been brought up to date by the addition of an appendix. At 25s. this well-produced'edition is not expensive.
Rebecca West's well-known account of a journey through Yugoslavia, Black Lamb find Grey Falcon, first published in 1942, has now been issued in a single volume by Macmillan at 36s. This is an American edition imported and distributed by the British publisher.
Zola's novels available in. new translations now include Zest for Life (La Joie de Vivre) translated by Jean Stewart and with a preface by Angus Wilson (Elek, 15s.).
1955 is the centena'ry of the birth of W. P. Ker, and in honour thereof Nelsons have re- issued The Dark Ages, which Ker first pub- lished in 1904. This new edition, at 15s., has a new foreword by B. 'for Evans.
James Lansdale Hodson is continuing his original and courageous venture of acting as his own publisher for reprints of his novels and has now produced Harvest in the North, photographed from the original edition of 1934, at 9s.
The O.U.P. have produced a third edition of W. R. Lethaby's Architecture, which was originally published in the Home University Library in 1911 and has been constantly re- printed. The new edition has a new preface and epilogue by Basil Ward, FRIBA, and costs 18s.
New reprints in the major collections in- clude three Everymans: Thoreau's Walden, Emerson's Essays and Dumas's The Count of Monte Crism, now provided with new intro- ductions by Professor Basil Willey, Professor Sherrnan Paul and Marcel Girard respectively (Walden and Essays, 6s. each; Monte Cristo, 14s. for two volumes). Cecil Woodham-Smith's Florence Nightingale appears as a Penguin at 3s. 6d.
NICHOLAS RAEBURN
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