"EVERYMAN."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 9

" EVERYMAN."

The. welcome news arrives by mail that Dent's .havo added 50 more volumes to the "Everyman" series, bringing tho list up to over 550. Tho new batch contains some interesting entries. Three of the volumes, including a new translation of Turgeniev's "Virgin Soil," are edited by Mr. lihys, who as a writer of prefaces made his mark by the essay with which fivc-and-twenty years ago he

I introduced the Come'.ot Classics. Tho fact that it is Mr. Lang who edits them I justifies a new edition of Scott's "Poems and Plays'* in two volumes, for not only is Mr. Lang tho Scott expert of our time, and has written, among other things, a scries of prefaces to tho Waverley Novels, which are well worth collecting into a single volume, but ho is also a poetic son of Scott's. "From you first," lie wrote in an imaginary letter to tho Wizard, "as we followed the deer with King James or rode with William of Doloraino on his midnight errand, did we learn what poetry means and all the hapniness that is in the gift of song." The marked recent rise in the reputation of Mrs. Gaskell as a novelist is met by an edition of "Sylvia's Lovers," while Mr. Oliphant Smeaton's "Lifo of Shahspere" will embody the recent discoveries concerning the poet's life, and tho fact of tho criticisms being of a "variorum" nature will differentiate the book from Mr. Mascfiold's recent excellent work at the same price. Momm?en's monumental "History of Rome" is to occupy four volumes, and Dostoievsky's "Crime and Punishment" is to be followed up by the same author's "The House of. the Dead," a story of prison life in Siberia. A final interesting name is that of Walter liagohot. Bagebot's volume of IS3S, called "Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen," was the basis of the "Literary Studies" in two volumes which R. H. Hutton collected in IS7B, and which had reached a fourth edition in 1891. Those studies reappeared in Longman's Silver Library as • "Biographical Studies" and "Literary Studies," and all those issues are valu- ■ able for Ilutton's memoir. Three years ago Mr. Melrose published them under tho title "Estimations in Criticism," and now they aro to be obtainable in the form of two volumes of "Everyman's" along with seven miscellaneous essays. The fact that the younger generation may have so much that is excellent in • literature on such easy terms is calculated to make some of us wish that our birth had been postponed for sonic ; twenty years or :e.