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 9* B. IV. Dec. 30, '99.) NOTES AND QUERIES. MR. ELKIN MATHEWS'S NEW BOOKS. TWO ESSAYS UPON MATTHEW ARNOLD, with his Letters to the Author. By ABTHUR G ALTON. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. «i. net. " It is good to be reminded of the man himself not only by the reappearance of his delightful satire (' Friendship's Garland'), but by such books as this tiny volume."— Times. " A small book, but more In it than in many a heavier appreciation of the great crit ic."—Scotsman. ADMIRALS ALL, and other Verses. By Henry Newbolt. (Shilling Garland, No. VIII.) Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Is. net. "Genuinely Inspired patriotlo verse There are but a dozen pieces in this shillings worth, but there Is no dross among them."— St. James's Gazette. " All the pieces are instinct with the national Kngllsh spirit. They are written in a sturdy rhythmical speech, worthy of their own high themes."—Scotsman. " Looking back to recent achievements in the same line, and including even Mr. Kipling's, we do not know where to And anything better after its own kind than his ballad of ' Drake's brum.' "—Westminster Gazette. " To the band of modern ballad-writers a new recruit is always most welcome. It is therefore with the greatest possible pleasure that we notice the delightful little collection of ballads which Mr. Newbolt publishes under the title of ' Admirals AH.' Mr. Newbolt has done a notable thing. He has managed to write ballads full of ring and go, and full also of patriotic feeling, without imitat-ing Mr. Rudyard Kipling ' Admirals AH ' 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 utfers a word throughout the poem, but only brings His sad countenance and bleeding brow and torn hands into that imaginary world of half-conceived and chaotic gloom. —Spectator. The JOY of MY YOUTH. A Novel. By Claud Nicholson. Crown 8vo. 3f. 6rf. net. " There is very delicate work in ' The Joy of My Youth.' There is not much story In 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 sentiment, 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. " Tbe 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 ft 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. Tbe best poems in the volume before us, in their strength, stateliuess, 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' Tbe Unconscious Humourist.' Crown 8vo. 3>. tirf. net. " Mr. Watson discourses with shrewdness and humour upon such topics as diaries, tea and muffins, golf and matri- mony There are few writers who can treat so deftly and so entertainingly the most commonplace feelings and incidents of every-day life."—Scotsman. " The style is always fresh and graceful; It Is always ensy without losing a pleasant literary flavour and without degenerating into slipshod slanginess. His humour is spontaneous (or seems to be so, because he has the art of concealing hia art), and a trifle subacid at times, whereby it loses nothing in piquancy. Of the seventeen essays wh!»k make up the volume there is not one which does not contain some happy fancy, some quaint conceit, or some shrewd reflection." Pait 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. CAKKW HAZLITT. Thick crown 8vo. 6>. net. This work contains (1) new biographical and bibliographical matter relative to Charles Lamb and his sister- VI) slxtv 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 must needs place this volume on their shelves."—Globe. London: ELKIN MATHEWS, Vigo Street, W.