NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—Shakespeare's Works. 3 vols. (G. Newnes. 100.
net, or 3s. 6d. net per vol.)—This is described as a " thin-paper edition," the three volumes containing respectively the " Tragedies," the " Histories and P ems," and the " Comedies," this last being made up to the average bulk by the " General Glossary." The whole is thus divided into three approximately equal parts, the number of pages being, keeping the order given above, 1,065, 976, and 962. This little trifle of 2,961 pages (the glossary not being counted) Lord Bacon, we are asked to believe, knocked off in the spare moments of leisure from his work as a lawyer, philosopher, and writer. This is certainly one of the most convenient editions that we have ever seen, excellently printed, light, and easily stowed away.—In the issue of "Sir Walter Scott's Works" in the "New Century Library" we have the two concluding volumes (XXIII.-XXIV.), containing The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous in one, Count Robert of Paris in the other.—A very pretty little volume, Songs from the Plays of William Shakespeare (A. C. Curtis, Guildford), ought not to pass without mention.—In the "Caxton Series of Illustrated Reprints of Famous Classics " (G- Newnes), we have Tennyson's In Memoriam.
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