ScisooL-Booxs.—We are glad to see that Dr. Merry has added
another to his admirable editions of Aristopbanes. This time it is the Peace, which he has edited with an introduction and notes. The play takes us into the very centre of Athenian history. It belongs to the end of the first period of the Peloponnesian War, having been represented in 421 B.C., the year of the Peace of Nicias. A more competent and appreciative editor of Aristo-- phanes could not be found. The student will not only get all the help in the way of scholarship and history that he wants, but will be made to see the fun.—In " Blackwood's English Classics" (W. Blackwood and Sons, 2s. 6d.) we have Milton's Paradise Lost, Books edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A., and Cowper's Task and Minor Poems, edited by Elizabeth Lee ; and in the " Eversley Shakespeare" (Macmillan and Co.) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Is.) and Mach Ado About Nothing (28.1, edited, with Imtroduction and Notes, by C. H. Herford, Litt.D., a Shake- spearian scholar whose name is a guarantee for the excellence of his work.
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