Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys. With Notes by the
Rev. Mynon Bright. Vol. I. (Bickers.)—This is the first instalment of an edition to be completed in six volumes, and that will contain the whole, or nearly the whole, of the Diary as Popys left it. We say, "nearly the whole," because the present editor has omitted, he tells us, the diarist's " account of his daily work at the office," besides some passages that are unfit for publication. The omission of the last is unquestionably right, and it is good taste not to have marked the lacunee. But there should, we think, have been some indication of such omitted passages as have reference to the business of the Admiralty. Nor would it be amiss to give a specimen of them in some future volume. We have not had the opportunity of comparing this volume with the previous editions. The editor tells us that it contains a third more of matter, and he also gives us a list of mistakes corrected, numbering about one hundred. There are nine illustrations, seven of them portraits from the Pepys collec- tion, the other two a fac-simile of the diarist's cypher and of his ordinary handwriting, and a representation of the cup which he gave to the Clothworkers' Company.
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