Review of reviews and world's work . the adventures of a pnv-ate, ColonelJack ? of a thief, and Roxana and Moll Flanders of ladiesof more than doubtful character. Books and Bookmen and Old Friends. By Andrew Lang. New York : Longmans, Green & Co. $1. How delightful an essayist Mr. Lang is in his best moodcan well be seen from these two volumes, which form thesecond and third of a new edition of his works. Books andBookmen is a collection of bookish essays; Old Friendsare essays in epistolary parody. Did the persons m contem-porary novels never meet ? asks Mr. Lang. It is likely, althoughno nov
Review of reviews and world's work . the adventures of a pnv-ate, ColonelJack ? of a thief, and Roxana and Moll Flanders of ladiesof more than doubtful character. Books and Bookmen and Old Friends. By Andrew Lang. New York : Longmans, Green & Co. $1. How delightful an essayist Mr. Lang is in his best moodcan well be seen from these two volumes, which form thesecond and third of a new edition of his works. Books andBookmen is a collection of bookish essays; Old Friendsare essays in epistolary parody. Did the persons m contem-porary novels never meet ? asks Mr. Lang. It is likely, althoughno noveUst has chronicled such meetings. Even Mr. Langdoes not essay this, but he gives us the letters which one char-acter wrote to another. Thus Olive Newcome writes toArthur Pendennis. Mrs. Gamp to Mrs. Prig, Monsieur Leooqto Inspector Bucket, and Count Fosco to Samuel other letters there are, some addressed b>^ char-acter to novelist, and all alike pleasing, and marked with ailMr. Langs happy grace of MR. ANDREW LANG. Faces and Places. By Henry W. Lucy. Octavo, pp. 202. London : Henry & Co. 3s. 6d. A volume of essays on various subjects, illustrated withportraits of the author and of Col. Fred Burnaby, the subjectof the first paper. The article, To those About to BecomeJoumahst s is, perhaps the most interesting, and shoiild beread by all aspirants for literary fame. Mr. H. W. Lucy knowsas much as any man living of the diflaculties of a oournalistiocareer, so that he is specially adapted for the post of points out that nothing can be done m iournalism exceptby hard work, and that the beginner must depend on his ownexertions and merits alone to obtain a position on a paper. HISTORY. Problems in Greek History. By J. P. Mahaffy, , , pp. 2(>4. New York : Macmillan & Co. $ This is a survey of the present state of knowledge andof theory with regard to Greek history. Readers of other books will know that his interes
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