Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. At this pleasant season, when the whole work-a-day world is bent on holiday-making, poetry seems at a premium; and our library table is enriched with sundry indications as to this direction of the popular mind. We will not attempt, in the limited space which we can devote to such matters, to indulge in a dissertation upon the merits of Mr. Tennyson's Maud; but refer such of our readers as lack criticism on this last bright spark hammered from the brain of the Laureate to the Examiner, for a well-considered and eulogistic lecture on its more patent beauties; and to the Athenæum for an article rich in critic-craft, and in the elucidation of the more esoteric charms of this "thing of beauty." We will rather content ourselves with calling attention to what has lately been doing to secure new readers and fresh welcome for some of the older masters of song. First turn we to the new volume of the Annotated Edition of the British Poets. It is the first of the Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, edited by Robert Bell; and contains a carefully-written biography by the editor, and the first and second Parts of Hudibras. Some idea of the value of this new edition will be found in the fact that it is founded upon a careful examination of the former editions, from the earliest to the last reprint of that by Dr. Nash; that the text has been carefully collated; obscurities from vague or false punctuation have been removed; and in the illustrative annotations special regard has been had to the brief notes either known, or supposed to have been written, by Butler himself. We can scarcely anticipate but that, with such careful tendering, Mr. Bell will succeed in awakening a new interest in Butler in the minds of the reading public. Of somewhat less ambitious character are three volumes recently issued by Mr. Routledge, under the editorship of the Rev. R. A. Wilmott. 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