4 JANUARY 1902, Page 26

We welcome The Hampstead Annual, 1901, edited by Grenville E.

Matheson and Sydney C. Maple (S. C. Mayle, 2s. 63. net). The first paper is a well-deserved tribute of praise and gratitude to air Walter Besant. We see some noteworthy remarks on the Besant and Rice partnership ; at the same time we venture to rdmark that he was a little hard on publishers.—aeitsvimus ipsi —

though there was nothing like "sweeping hatred." Of other articles we may mention "George Romney," by Miss Beatrice Marshall (with a portrait)!; " Mrs. Barbauld," by Canon Ainger ; and "Sabrina Fair," recollections of Shrewsbury School by H. W. Nevinson. We congratulate the Annual on its continued vigour, and wish it a long life.