MISCELLANECIII8.—Tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round
Table. By Margaret Vere Farrington. (Putnam's Sons.) —These versions of the old romances are pleasant reading. The style is easy, and though the sentences have an appropriate early English turn, they are not pedantic. Some of the stories
are from Mabry, end some from the Mabinogion, and they cover the time from the birth of Arthur down to the death of Sir Lancelot. These versions will not, of course, do as substitutes for the original romances, even with children, but they can well take their place alongside of them.—The Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire. Vol. III. The Scarsdale Hundred.
ByJ. T. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 21s.)—This is an arch no- logical, historical, and heraldic history of part of Derbyshire, and
# has a number of heraldic illustrations and reference tables. — A Dream of Fair Women, and other Poems. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Selected and Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Sullivan says in his postscript that an illustrator has many difficulties to contend with, not the least perhaps being the reader's preconceived idea of what the people and the landscape in a particular poem should look like. It will be a shock to most people to find the "daughter of the gods" depicted here as a large muscular woman, drawn with a roughness more in keeping with the "Vision of Sin" than the
Dream of Fair Women." We wish he would keep to the grim subjects that snit his art so well, such as-
" Fear not thou to loose thy tongue; Set thy hoary fancies tree: What is loathsome to the young Savours well to thee and me.'
---Rubtaydt of Omar Khayam. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—We have here the four editions of Fitzgerald, with the original prefaces and notes, in one volume. There are some interesting tables showing the changes he made in the various editions but except for this there is no new matter. The book is prettily bound in white vellum, with red lettering and red ribbon ties.
A Breath from the Veldt. By John Guile Millais, F.Z.S., f&e. With numerous illustrations by the author, and frontispiece by the late Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A. (Henry Sotheran.
2s.)—This new and revised edition of Mr. Millais's book is of special interest just now, though, indeed, it can well stand on its own merits without help from the war. . The illustrations are perhaps the best part of the book, some of them, particularly the electro etchings, being really beautiful.
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