NEW EDITIONS.—Two new series deserve a warm welcome. The first
is "The Library of Standard Biographies" (Hutchinson and Co.), which will be devoted to reprints of famous Lives. We note to-Gbiy in this charming series Memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte, from the French of F. de Bourrienne, newly edited, with Nptes and a Chronological Table, by Edgar Sanderson, M.A. (1s. and 2s.), a work of high reputation which it is a great gain to have brought within easy reach.—The other series is "The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books" (Methuen and Co.), and in it we note to-day The Life of John Mytton, by "Nimrod." John Mytton was one of the most extraordinary of human beings, and his Life, if as nothing else but a "shocking example," is worth reading. Also The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, a specimen of the humour which amused the early nineteenth century. Both series are charmingly got up, and show the wonderful taste and efficiency with which modern cheap books are produced. We wish both series the many readers they deserve.
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