It gives us an insight into the working of the
human mind under conditions new to us. Second, that we must be careful to inquire how far the political names which Aristotle usee have changed their significance. The "fierce democracy" which Pericles "wielded at will" was very different from the democracy of modern politics.--Rabelais. Selected and Edited by Curtis Hidden Page. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is the first volume of a proposed series of "French Classics for English Readers," to appear under the editorship of Professor Adolphe Cohn and Dr. C. H. Page. The most stalwart champion of the principle of reprinting without omission would hesitate to apply it to Rabelais. Whether the editors have hit the just mean in their treatment of the text is a matter which we shall not attempt to decide. Certainly the book is not suitable virgini bus puerisgue ; but Rabelais never could be that and remain Rabelais. Let it suffice to say that the edition is very well got up and generally attractive.—A Dictionary of American Authors: By Oscar Fay Adams. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. 14s.)—A fifth edition containing between eight and nine thousand names, an increase of nearly three thousand on the first, and more than thirteen hundred on the second. These numbers are prodigious, and every day adds to them. The labour of the Danaides is as nothing to the making of a list of authors. The vase is never full.—Home Education. By Charlotte M. Mason. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Hybi/, by Lord Beacons- field (John Lane, Is. 6d. net), in the "New Pocket Library." Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontii, 2 vols. (J. M. Dent and Co., Cs. net), the first of a reprint of "The Novels of _Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte'."—A Vagabond in Asia. By Edmund Candler. (Greening and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Candler is the author, it will be remembered, of the recent "Unveiling of Lhasa."—A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, in the series of "Cameo Classics" (Library Press, 6d. net).—In the same series we have also The Beauties of Sterne.
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