28 MAY 1864, Page 25

Milton's Comus, L'Allegro, and R Penseroso. With Notes. By the

Rev. John Hunter, M.A. (Longman and Co.)—Mr. Hunter is among the beat of the numerous editors of our classical writers whom the University Middle Class examinations have called out. In place of criticiem of his own he gives by way of introduction copious extracts from the criticisms of Warton, Johnson, Hallam, Macaulay, and James Montgomery, and his notes are terse and to the point, while they give all the information even school-boys can require. The plan of explaining unusual words on constructions by parallel passages from other parts is, we think, far bettor than a laboured explanation.