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Immaculate Conception, the Annunciation, th beven Joys and Seven Sorrows, and the Assump tion. Six chapters are devoted to ' The Childhooc and Youth of Christ,' eleven to His ministry; others again, to the 'Incidents of the Holy Passion ' &c Masters and Apostles,' ' Doctors and Fathers,' ar treated, and there is a portion devoted to ' Hagio logy.' Those with no special knowledge of ecclesi astical subjects will read with interest what is said in chapters on ' The Stations of the Cross,' ' Stigmata, and I he Holy Grail.' Among the works most fre quently employed by our author are Mrs. Jameson' ' r a, cred , a ? d Le g en dary Art,' Baring-Gould a ' Myth of the Middle Ages,' and Hilderic Friend's ' Flowers, and Flower Lore.' Dr. Sebastian Evans's theories concerning the Holy Grail have also been taken into account. Much relating to the subjects treatec is naturally to be found in our own columns.

Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus. With Intro ductions and Notes by John Dennis and lllus trations by Byam Shaw. (Bell & Sons.) YET two more volumes have been added to the " Chiswick Shakespeare." The appearance of these and the habit of using this beautiful and service- able edition perhaps the best of all-for combined trustworthiness and facility of reference have led us to investigate the progress that has been made. We have received, it thus appears, all the comedies but 'Twelfth Night 'and the 'Comedy of Errors,' and all the tragedies except ' Cymbeline,' if that ranks as such. From the historical plays we miss ' Richard II.,' ' Richard III.,' and ' King Henry V.' These, with the poems, will, it is to be supposed, complete the work. The notes in both volumes now issued constitute a portion of the glossary. Among the designs to ' Timon ' that of the ' Mask of Amazons '

Hoy-day what a sweep of vanity comes this way !

They dance ! they are mad women and the view of the grave of Timon

Upon the very hem o' the sea are conspicuous.

With the exception of declaring that the effect of 'Titus AndronicBS 1 is "to depress and disgust," and bringing an arraignment against modern play- goers for liking pieces of the class, little is said by Mr. Dennis concerning the second play, the share in which of Shakespeare must be slight. It is a pity that Shakespeare did not disavow it. Are the Baconians anxious to claim it for their idol ?

Photograms of the Year 1902. (Dawbarn & Ward.) AMONG art annuals few are more welcome than this. Each successive number shows an advance upon what has gone before, and he would indeed be a hardy man who would say, what was once maintained, that photography is an obscure art or no art at all. Admirable effects are continually obtained, and the landscape results are worthy of comparison with the best engravings. We speak with no claim to authority. A portrait sucn as that on p. 22, a design such as that on p. lift, and innumerable other illustrations constitute mar- vellous revelations of artistic feeling, and suggest that no limit to the results to be obtained by the camera may be foreseen. The suggestions of Mr. Snowden Ward must be of great value. With the practical part of the work we may not, however, concern ourselves. We advise our readers to study a work the coat of which ia nominal, and if they

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MR LATHAM'S invaluable treatise is ushered in bv a preface by Mr. Francis. Storr. It is of interest 2 the philologist and indispensable to the student

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To the beautiful series of " Oxford Miniature Poets, issued on India paper, has been added The 7 ales of a Wayside fnn The Golden Leyend, and other Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The entire poetical works are to be given in three volumes, of wh;ch this seems to be the most desir- able. It has a portrait dated 1851.

THE article to which most persons in the first in- stance will turn in the present Edinburgh Review is the one which gives a history of its progress during the hundred years that it has existed. Not many periodicals have lived so long, and with so little change of character. *We trust it may still be vigorous when another century has glided by and give to those who are then flourishing a picture of the twentieth century as accurate and, we may add, as judiciously reticent as that before us of the nineteenth; When the Edinburgh was planned its originators thought that its life would be but short. The mistake was natural. No man of sense could have anticipated the great success that awaited it, though we who are wise after the event have no difficulty in pointing out some, at least, of the reasons for it. We have read ng them with the periodical literature with which they were contemporary, we cannot wonderthat they at once charmed and astonished the reading public. To us who have lived in a calmer atmosphere the ntterness of expression whenever politics are con- cerned appears as a great drawback, as it un- doubtedly is' when viewed from an ethical standpoint; but it must be remembered that the early contributors wrote in an age when strong anguage was only restrained by the arbitrament of ,he duel. A greater fault was what we should now regard as the undue amount of space devoted to )olitics; but it must be remembered that to every me then alive politics meant much more than they lo to-day. Napoleon was not only a terror, but a >rodigy, on whose progress men could not calculate any more than their medieval ancestors could com- irehend those blazing stars which now and again ashed out in the heavens, filling all Europe with he dread of war and pestilence, if not of speedy lestruction by fire. The literary life, too, was ar different from what we have known it. "ew men wrote for pay except in the news- apers, and periodical literature had hardly ecome an honourable vocation. We have our- elves known men who, so late as the fifties, found hemselves driven to keep from their elders all nowledge of the fact that they received money for heir "copy." A debt of gratitude is owing to effery for having been one of the first who did omething to remove what the present reviewer alia the " coy feeling with which men regarded any
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