We have received from Messrs. Blaclde a number of 'Reading
Lone), (H.), Great Golfers lathe Mak,ng. S.o and prices. In the "School and ROMO Library" we have Mared the Unlucky, and other Tales, by Maria Edgeworth (is.)— the "other Tales" are six in number, and include "lexY Lawrence," "The Barring Out," and "Simple Susan "—with a biographical introduction. Readings in English HistOry : B.C. 64 —AD. 1154, Edited by R B. Morgan, B.Litt., and E. J. Bailey, BA. (2s.), gives us extracts from Caesar, Tacitits, Beads, Glides, Asser, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmes- bury, and other monkish chroniclers. The illustrations are taken from genuine places and scenes. Heroes of European History, by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (Is. 6d.), contains some fifty short biographies, Ac., beginning with " Lycurgns and Solon," after a preliminary chapter, "Greeks and Trojans" (this might with advantage have been brought up to recent knowledge, no account of epic times, however short, should omit some notice ' of the Mycenaean age).—In the series of " Blackie's English School Texts," Edited by W. H. D. Rouse, Litt.D., we have The Chimes, by Charles Dickens (64.)—In the "Plain. Text Shakespeare" (same publishers, 44. per vol.), in which the "Greater Flays" only are given, we have Coriolanus, King Henry V., Kitty Richard III,, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and The Tempest.
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