28 AUGUST 1897, Page 25

Selections from the Works of Sir Lewis Morris. (Kegan Paul

'Trench, and Co.)—Sir Lewis Morris will not he affronted, we trust, when we say that he is not read to disadvantage in a volume of selections. The same can certainly be said of Words- worth and probably of Shelley. How small a part of Shelley is actually known even to habitual readers of poetry ! We are not sure whether it would not have been well if the poet had entrusted the task of selection to some one else.