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Washington to lament his lack of the schooling of pedagogues: T should have been saved some clemency, as shall mention, and later also tncon- venfence, when I had to deal with French officers during the great war. I had then to make use of MT. Dupon- cean and of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Wynne of my staff. but had been better served by G. w.. had I known the Lord Fairfax for the younger man, of the beautiful love between Laurence Washington and young George, Dr. Mitchell gives appreciative relation. The remarkable volume Is already familiar to readers of the Century Magazine. and notes of it during serial appearance have been frequently made
 It is a volume no student of our his tory should be without A book most interesting, informing and fascinating.
 Rolfe's Shakespeare revised edition As You Like it," 2s3 pages. King Henry the Fifth,' 269 pages; King Lear." BOA pages; King Richard the Third" 329 pages: Romeo and Juliet" 297 pages; Twelfth Night" 245 pages. Edited with notes by William J. Rolfe,
 
 High School. Cambridge, Mass. Cloth 16me.. with illustrations. As a teacher lecturer Dr. Rolfe has been contantly in touch with the progress made In the past thirty years. and has been all the while collecting material for this revis ed edition of his Shakespeare. The volumes have been entirely reset. and the topography Is much improved. The page has been made smaller to adjust the volumes to pocket use. The notes have been carefully revised being abridged or expanded as seemed best and many new ones have been added Most Of the notes on textual varia- tions are omitted. and for those refer ring to other volumes of the series and to certain books of reference new notes have been inserted, so that each volume is now absolutely complete in itself. Most of the quoted Critical Comments" have been left out, and for these the author has substituted mat ter of his own. A concise account of Shakespeare's meter has been inserted in each volume. with illustrative ex- amples from the play. The pictoral illustrations are all new. those retain ed from formed editions being re-en- graved. The changes and improve ments embodied in this revision will tend to maintain this as the standard annotated American edition.
 Gateway Series of English Texts, editor, Henry van Dyke, Princeton University. The Sir Roger De Beverley Papers. edited by c. T. Winchester, l.. H. D., Professor of English Literature. Wesleyan University. 25S pages, with map of London in 1744-5. Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, edited by George Edward Woodberry, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1o7 pages, with portrait of Coleridge. Macaulay's Essay on Addi- son, edited by Charles Flint Medium pha, Ph. D.. Professor of English in the University of Minnesota, 1S4 pages, with portrait of Addison. Milton's Minor Poems, edited by Mary A Jor- dan. A. M, Professor of English, Smith College. 179 pages. with facsimile of Milton'ss discarded MS. of part of Lycidas. Shakespeare's Macbeth, edited by Thomas Marc Parrott, Ph. D., Professor of English in Princeton Uni versity, R69 pages. with portrait of Shakespeare. Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Gareth and I,ynette. Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur. edited by Henry van Dyke. 1S7 pages. with portrait of Tennyson. These volumes form the most recent issues in this new series. which will include all the English texts required for entrance to college. They are furnished in a form which makes them clear. interesting, and helpful in beginning the study of literature. The editors of the various volumes have been chosen for their special fitness for their work. which represents simplicity, directness, suf- fciency. and vital interest The notes are limited to such as help the pupil to understand the text. and are placed at the bottom of the page. The in- reductions give in clear and concise form the knowledge needed for a prop