broken career of that unfortonate man of genius, and is characterised

alike by sympathy and candour. The greater portion of the stock of Thomson's Works was, as is well known, destroyed by fire^ so that this collection of his writings in verse is timely and welcome. Thomson's reputation (as his editor observes) is of the kind whose steady, if slow, growth makes for permanent endurance. Here we maj find 'Vane's Story,' * Weddah and Om-el-Bonain,' the feunous ' City of Dreadful Nighi* and many another outcome of his ibwerfnl but gloomy intellect. The translations from Heine take h{gh rank among the attempts, so seldom successfully made, to supplv English readers with a rendering of the quaint and delicate fancies of one whose alternations of mood were akin to those of Thomson him- stUV^-^NoHonal Observer, i6mO| cIoth| 3$. 6d., or in parchment binding, 5s. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER POEMS (Selected) By James Thomson (" B.V/') Crown 8vo, pp. 51 2, doth extra, 6s. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES By Jambs Thomson (« B.V.**) This volume contains biographical and critical studies of the lives and works of Rabelais, Ben Jonson, William Blake, Shelley, Garth Wilkinson, John Wilson, James Hogg, Robert Browning, and others. Square i6mo, buckram, 2s. 6d. net A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY By Oliver Goldsmith Now first reprinted from the unique original, with an Introduction and Notes by Bertram Dobell.