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 B* S. IV. July 1, '99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. MR. ELKIN MATHEWS'S NEW BOOKS. TWO ESSAYS UPON MATTHEW ARNOLD, with his Letters to the Author. By ABTHUR GALTON. Fcap. 8vo. 3». «d. net. " It is good to be reminded of the man himself not only by the reappearance of his delightful satire (' Friendship's Oarland'), out by such books a» this tiny volume."—lima. " A small book, but more In It than in many a heavier appreciation of the great critic."—Scotsman. ADMIRALS ALL, and other Verses. By Henry Newbolt. (Shilling Garland, Ho. VIII.) Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 1». net. " Genuinely inspired patriotic verse There are but a dozen pieces in this ahillingswortb, but there is no dross among them."— St. Jama's Gazette. "All the piece, are instinct with the national English spirit. They are written In a sturdy rhythmical speech, worthy of their own high theme.."—Scotsman. "Looking back to recent achievement, in the same line, and Including even Mr. Kipling's, we do not know where to And anything better after it. own kind than his ballad of * Drake's Drum.' —Westminster Gazette. " To the band of modern ballad-writers a new recruit is always most welcome. It la therefore with the greatest possible pleasure that we notice the delightful little collection of ballads which Mr. Newbolt publishes under the title of ' Admiral. All.' Mr. Newbolt has done a notable thing. He has managed to write ballad, full of ring and go, and full aboof patriotic feeling, without imitating Mr. Kudyard Kipling ' Admirals All' is practically Mr. Stevenson's charming essay on ' The Old Admirals' put Into ballad form. Mr. Newbolt has improved on the essay, and given us a poem which could be sung by sailors all the world over."—Spectator. CHRIST in HADES, and other Poems. By Stephen Phillips. Fourth Edition, with Additions, is. net. " It is a wonderful dream, a dream that stirs the heart in almost every line, though Christ Himself never utter, a word throughout the poem, but only brings Hi. sad countenance and bleeding brow and torn band, into that imaginary world of half-conceived and chaotic gloom."— spectator. The JOY of MY YOUTH. A Novel. By Claud Nicholson. Crown 8vo. 3*. Orf. net. '* There fa very delicate work In ' The Joy of My Youth.' There is not much story Jn It, but reminiscences from the history of a sensitive man, peculiarly open to impressions and influences from without. It has a Breton background, and. Indeed, there is nothing at all English about it Its style, its seutiment, its attitude were all made in France. It has charm and subtlety, and the childhood portion, with the blithe imaginative pictures of a beautiful and irresponsible past, must captivate all readers who have time to linger in their reading.' —Sketch. •• The delicate charm of this story Is not realized until the reader has read more than two or three chapters. The first chapter is unintelligible until the book is finished, and then we see that the author has chosen to tell us of the end of his hero's life before he had told us of the beginning of it Mr. Nicholson writes with rare sympathy for and appreciation of French life."—Glasgow Herald. IRELAND, with other Poems. By Lionel Johnson. (Uniform with ' Poems.') Crown 8vo. 5s. net. " A high place amongst living poets must be assigned to Mr. Lionel Johnson. The best poems In the volume before us, in their strength, statellness, and severe simplicity, resemble some of Tennyson's most finished work His former volume of poems, as well as this, will convince all appreciative readers that he possesses the creative faculty In a very high degree."— Irish Daily Independent. An ATTIC in BOHEMIA: a Diary without Dates. By E. H. Lacon Watson, Author of ' The Unconscious Humourist.' Crown 8vo. 3s. 6rf. net. " Mr. Wat aun discourses with shrewdness and humour upon such topics as diaries, tea and muffins, golf and matri- mony There are few writer, who can treat so deftly and so entertainingly the most commonplace feelings and incident. of everyday life."—Scotsman. " The style is always fresh and graceful; it is always easy without losing a pleasant literary flavour and without degenerating into slipshod slauginess. His humour is spontaneous (or seems to be so, because he ha. the art of concealing hi. art), and a trifle subacid at times, whereby ft lose, nothing In piquancy. Of the seventeen essays wh<r<h make up the volume there i. not one which doe. not contain some happy fancy, some quaint conceit, or some shrewd reflection.*' Pan Mall Gazette. NEW BOOK ON CHARLES AND MARY LAMB. The LAMBS: their Lives, their Friends, and their Correspondence. New Particulars and New Material. By W. CARKW HAZLITT. Thick crown 8vo. 6». net. This work contain. (1) new biographical and bibliographical matter relative to Charles Lamb and his sister; (2) sixty- four uncollected letters and notes from the Lambs, several of which have not hitherto been printed; and (3) certain letters to Lamb now first correctly rendered. " Lamb lovers matt needs place this volume on their shelves."—Globe. London: ELKIN MATHEWS, Vigo Street, W.