4 DECEMBER 1897, page 39

Work : An Illustratedweekly Journal For Mechanics....

is the volume:for the half-year ending July 10th,1897. It would be difficult to find anything which the readers of Work are not taught how to make. Organs, fishing-rods, medical......

The Penny Poets, (review Of Reviews Office),

include "Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, Parts I. and IL," "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," "Paradise Lost, Part II. (abridged)," " Moore's Irish Melodies,". "Selections from the......

A Collection Of Ballads. Edited By Andrew Lang. (chapman And

Hall.)—Mr. Lang gives us here, together with a brief, too brief, preface, and a few notes, some fifty ballads, beginning with "Sir Patrick s. Spans," and en di ng with three......

The Magazines.

WE do not quite know why those who write of Blackwood's Magazine, as some one does in this month's issue, confine themselves so closely to the first group of writers in it. We......

Current Literature.

Mr. Elliot Stock publishes a facsimile of the First Edition of the Christian Year. The Bishop of Rochester furnishes a brief preface, and there is a list of emendations that are......

Boons Reentven. — The Annual Statutes, 1897 (60 And 61...

J4 M. Lely, M.A„ (Sweet and Maxwell.) — Some- Account qf the Lord Mayors of the City of London, 1601 - 16.:"5. Compiled by G E. Cockayne. (Phillimore 'and Co.)—Applied......