NEW Enrriews.—In "The World's Classics" (H. Frowde, is. net) is
published a new edition of Tennyson's Poems, 1830- 1865. The excellent introduction has been furnished by T. Herbert Warren, D.C.L., the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. The volume first appeared in 1901, and was four times reprinted. The now edition contains, we presume—we have not had the opportunity of com- paring it—some additional poems. Now we certainly roeognise the fact that it is a great thing to be able to acquire all this body of admirable verse at the modest price of one shilling. Still, there is something to be said for the proposition that all a poet's work should be retained in copyright till the time of the latest piece has expired. But though we hold that when all has been said the balance inclines strongly in favour of the limitations of copyright adopted in our law, we think it would be well to say frankly : Here you have all that the copyright law allows us to give you. What we do not like is a statement, not unknown in collections of this kind, that all that is worth reading in the author falls outside the limit of the copyright. We do not find that here ; nevertheless we are inclined to rebel when we are told that " a oolleetkn which includes the 'Poems' proper, the Princess,' &c." —everything mentioned being out of copyright—is " abundantly representative." The most representative thing that Tennyson ever wrote was " Crossing the Bar" ; but we shall not be allowed to think so till we have passed the year 1931. It is really worth while to quote from the "Life" the passage that relates to it :— "I said: That is the crown of your life's work.' He said: 'It came in a moment' A few days before my father's death he said to me : 'Mind you put Crossing the Bar at the end of all my poems.' "—In "Macmillan's Sevenpenny Series" we have Dr. Claudius, by F. Marion Crawford; A Beleaguered City, by Mrs. Oliphant; Mamma, by Rhoda Broughton; and The Solitary Swimmer, by the Anther of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." —In "Illustrated Guide-Becks" (Ward, Lock, and Co., ls. net per vol.), London (brought up to date, a most necessary thing in view of the complicated system of locomotion now established, not to speak of other things), The English Lake District, Falmouth, the Lizard, and South Cornwall, and Stratford-on-Avon, 4'e.—In the " Little Guides" Series (Methuen and co, 2s. 6d. net) we have Staffordshire, by Charles Masefield. The plan of these books, it will be remembered, is the most convenient one of alphabetical
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