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WE have received Parts XV. and XVI. of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; also a pocket edition of the Parallel New Testament (giving the Authorized and Revised Versions side by side), issued jointly by the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge.

the appearance of its two predecessors. So replete is Another contribution of interest is an excellent account the work with references and information concerning of "Giovanni Costa, Patriot and Painter," whose works English authors in general that it must necessarily were recently exhibited at the Fine-Art Society's Rooms. occupy a conspicuous place among books of reference in WE have received from Mr. Fisher Unwin copies of every library. The volumes contain upwards of fifteen two highly effective etchings by Mr. L. Alma Tadema, hundred pages in double columns, which we have dili-which are to illustrate the édition de luxe of Miss Helen gently read through, and are therefore in a position to Zimmern's stories from the Shah Nameh of Firdusi. speak with confidence as to the accuracy, care, and The Epic of Kings, as Miss Zimmern has christened research exercised by the joint authors during the fifteen her collection, will probably be one of the most popular years they have devoted to the work. Bibliographers as well as beautiful books of the season. are now aware that it is insufficient for their books to be alphabetical, but that indexes are also necessary; accordingly the authors have themselves (who else, indeed, could have done so?) compiled an index to which they justly refer with some pride in the preface. American Men of Letters.-Henry D. Thoreau. F. B. Sanborn. (Sampson Low & Co.) So very little is known of Thoreau by English readers on this side of the Atlantic that we heartily welcome the appearance of Mr. Sanborn's little book. Few authors, in truth, have written so much and yet published so little. Indeed, The Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers and Walden; or, Life in the Woods were the only two books which appeared in his lifetime. It is by the latter book, which was originally published in 1854, that Thoreau is best known. It has generally been stated that he retired to Walden Woods as a protest against the luxury and restraints of society; but we learn from Mr. Sanborn that Thoreau's own explanation of his withdrawal from the world was "not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles." It was there that the greater part of his Walden was written. As a close observer and ardent lover of nature he much resembled our White of Selborne, but in their literary styles they were very dissimilar, the American having none of that simplicity which adds so much charm to the writings of the English author.

THE pleasant little "Mayfair Library" (Chatto & Windus) has received one of its most agreeable additions in Mr. Jacob Larwood's Theatrical Anecdotes. Mr. Larwood is a thoroughly capable compiler, and it is impossible to take up his book without being rewarded by some choice specimen of the inexhaustible ana of the stage.

MESSRS. REEVES & TURNER have done well to issue Mr. Buxton Forman's admirable edition of Shelley's Poems in a more portable and readable form. This has been done by retrenching, for the moment, the notes and appendices. The result is that the reader has now in two thickish volumes "the ipsissima verba of the master in what has the best claim to be considered their ultimate development." Mr. Forman gives in a suffi. cient preface the raison d'être of the book; and, as usual, he has been able to make some fresh additions to its already heaped-up riches.

THE October number of the Manchester Quarterly has one article of special interest, entitled Men of Genius and Unhappy Marriages." The list is a black one; but it might receive further illustration in the pages of "N. & Q." The writer (we observe) speaks of Swift's marriage to Stella as an established fact. Is not this, however, just one of those questions which must ever remain sub judice? In his recent monograph on Swift Mr. Leslie Stephen says truly "the fact is not proved nor disproved."

THE new volume of the Magazine of Art begins well. Its pretty etched frontispiece is pleasantly illustrated in verse by Mr. W. H. Pollock. Mr. R. L. Stevenson has also an attractive paper on "Two Japanese Romances," and Prof. Colvin reviews Mr. Hamerton's Graphic Arts.

THERE will shortly be published, with portrait and view of Wentworth Castle, The Wentworth Papers, 1705-1739, selected from the private and family correspondence of Thomas Raby, created in 1711 Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough, co. York. Cartwright, M.A., of H.M. Public Record Office, has furnished a memoir and notes.

WE regret to record the death of Mr. G. W. Septimus Piesse, who had long been a correspondent of "N. & Q."; he died at Chiswick on the 23rd ult.; also that of Mr. G. A. Carthew, the learned author of the History of Launditch, on the 21st ult., in the seventy-sixth year of his age.

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