31 MAY 1890, page 22

Mr. Ditffield's "latin Hymns."• The Author Of This...

interesting book did not live to complete it. But in Professor Thompson he found a friend who was able and willing to complete it for him. It is im- possible to speak too highly......

Defoe's " Compleat English Gentleman."*

THIS treatise was written in 1729, and is one of Defoe's last works. It appears now for the first time in print, admirably edited by a German scholar, who dates his preface from......