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GOLDEN TREASUR Y SERIES. 35

Milton's Poetical Works.— Edited, with Notes, &C., by Professor Masson. Two vols. i8mo. 9J.

Scottish Song, a Selection of the Choicest Lyrics of Scotland.

Compiled and arranged, with brief Notes, by Mary Carlyls

Aitkin.

    • Miss Aitkin* s exquisite collection of Scottish Song is so alluring^

and suggestM. so many topics, that we find it difficult to lay it down. The book is one that should find a place in every library ^ we haa almost said in every pockety and the summer tourist who wishes to carry with him into the country a volume of genuine poetry ^ wUl find it difficult to sdect one containing within so small a compctss so much of rarest value" — Spectator.

Deutsche Lyrik. — The Golden Treasury of the best German Lyrical Poems, selected and arranged with Notes and Literary Introduction. By Dr. Buchheim.

    • This collection of German poetry is compiled with care and con-

scientiousness The result of his labours is satisfactory.

Almost all the lyrics dear to English readers of German will be found in this little volume," — Pall Mall Gazette.

Robert Herrick. — SELECTIONS FROM THE LYRICAL POEMS OF. Arranged with Notes by F. T. Palgrave. " A delightful little book. Herrick^ the English Catullus^ is simply one of the most exquisite of poets ^ and his fame and memory are fortunate in having found one so capable of doing honour to them as the present editor ; who contributes a charming dedication and a preface full of delicate and sensitive criticism to a volume than which one would hardly desire a choicer companion for a jour ney or for hours of ease in the country,'^* — Daily News.

Poems of Places. — Edited by H. W. Longfellow. England

and Wales. Two Vols.

•• After a careful perusal we must pronounce his work an excellent collection, , , . In this compilation we fitid not only a guide- book for future travels^ but a fund of reminiscences of the past. To many (^ us it will seem like a biography of our best and happiest emotions, . . . For those who know not all these places the book will be an excellent travelling companion or guide^ or may even stand some in good stead in place of travel" — Times.

Matthew Arnold's Selected Poems. — Large Paper

Edition. Crown 8vo.