MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. In ten Books. The Text exactly reproduced from the FIRST EDITION of 1667, with Appendix, containing the Additions made in later issues, and a Monograph on the original publication of the Poem. The reproduction of Milton's "Paradise Lost has an interest superior to that of most reprints, as no edition subsequent to the first has preserved the system of emphasis adopted by Milton. At the end of the first edition of "Paradise Lost" we meet with what, to a casual observer, would appear to be a very singular correction, viz. Lib. 2, v. 414, "For we read wee.' ." Even a tolerably attentive student of the early editions of Milton might be at a loss what to make of this. It is certain that we is to be met with in this edition of "Paradise Lost" quite as often, or rather much oftener, with a single than with a double e. It occurs as we in the very next line to that referred to in this erratum. The explanation is this:-that although in ordinary cases Milton is accustomed to spell the pronouns we, me, be, ye with a single e, whenever special emphasis is intended to be put upon them he makes a point of writing wee, mee, yee, bee. Many other words are differently spelt from what was then or is now usual, and this not in an uncertain manner, as is common in old books, but after a regular, unvarying system, deliberately formed by Milton himself, and adopted upon choice and afore-thought. Besides its peculiarities of emphasis and spelling, the first edition exhibits some variations in the text of the Poem itself not followed in any later edition.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, WITH OTHER POEMS. BY WILLIAM BLAKE. Printed from the Original Edition of 1789-1794, and from the Author's MSS., with a Short Critical Preface. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 4s.

"The songs only require to be known to be loved with a tenderness and enthusiasm which it is not given to many poets to arouse. . . ."—Saturday

Review.

"The admirers of W. Blake as a poet-and they are a rapidly increasing number-owe much to Mr. Pickering for this reprint."-Notes and Queries, Jan. 26, 1867.

POETRY FOR CHILDREN. By CHARLES and MARY LAMB. Fcap. 8vo., with woodcut initials, head and tailpieces. Cloth, 3s. 6d.

"Perhaps you will admire the number of subjects, all of children, picked out by an old bachelor, and an old maid. Many parents would not have found so many."-Charles Lamb to Coleridge.

"A book which bears the name of the greatest humourist of a famous epoch cannot but interest grown-up, if not young folk."-The Times.

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BISHOP KEN'S CHRISTIAN YEAR. HYMNS AND POEMS FOR THE FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS OF THE CHURCH.

The simple piety of Ken's poetry rivals that of Herbert or Keble. His doctrinal soundness possesses an unchallenged reputation of 150 years.

His loyalty to the Church of England is undoubted, he with six other bishops having been the immediate instruments in preventing the establishment of the Roman Church in England under King James II.

Therefore the value and weight of the evidence which his Poems afford of the fact that the Church of England has ever held the doctrines of Baptismal Regeneration, Absolution, Penance, the Real Presence, the Assumption of Our Lady, and that St. Peter was the primus of the Catholic Church, cannot be over estimated.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Bishop Ken's Christian Year,' published by Mr. Pickering, is an exquisite edition of a book which would have been welcome in any shape. We are all familiar with the beautiful Morning and Evening Hymns. . . . Full of beautiful thoughts, beautifully expressed."-The Times.

"It is a praiseworthy collection, and one that is likely to find the favour it deserves."-Pall Mall Gazette.

"So quaint, yet so unaffected; so gentle, yet so free from effeminacy, so glowing to the core with the fire of genuine devotion."-Guardian.

"The great fulness with which Bishop Ken expresses those doctrines which are

designated Romanizing in our day makes his versial value just now."-The Church Times.

Christian Year' of much contro

"Eminently a devout English Churchman's book. It is especially valuable, too, at the present time, as claiming for the extremer' tone of Catholicism among ourselves Anglican authority of so high a stamp.' "-The Church Review.

"The publication of these poems by Bishop Ken is exceedingly opportune. His writings possess at the present time a value and importance greater than they have ever yet possessed, for his loyalty to the Church of England cannot be questioned by the most captious. He was one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by King James the Second for refusing to read "The Declaration.' And he was most active in his endeavours to combat the design of the same monarch to establish the Roman Church in England. Added to this, he was an immediate successor of those who reconstructed the Book of Common Prayer in 1662, and cannot but have been acquainted with what they understood to be included and expressed by those formularies.... Bishop Ken's Hymns have been used by those even who are outside the pale of the Church. Two at least, the Morning and Evening Hymns, have been for a century past included with Tate and Brady in the same cover with our Prayer Books."-The Church News. "Every page bears the mark of that thoughtful tender reverence which we all of us associate with the name of Bishop Ken."-Literary Churchman.

"It is well worthy to be one of the devotional books of every Churchmanand we would engage that any one who adds it to his or her tray of such books will find, after a year or so, that it has won a claim to be very near and dear as a companion through the Christian seasons."-The English Churchman. "All who possess the works of George Herbert and John Keble will be glad to add to their store the Christian Year of Bishop Ken."-Church Opinion.

THE LATE JOHN KEBLE ON KEN'S POETICAL WORKS.

"The simple and touching devoutness of many of Bishop Ken's lyrical effusions has been unregarded. . Whoever in earnest loves his three wellknown hymns, and knows how to value such unaffected strains of poetical devotion, will find his account in turning over his four volumes, half narrative and half lyric, and all avowedly on sacred subjects. . . . All breathing such an angelic spirit, interspersed with such pure and bright touches of poetry, that such a reader as we have supposed will scarcely find in his heart to criticise them.

"We shall hardly find, in all ecclesiastical history, a greener spot than the later years of this courageous and affectionate pastor; persecuted alternately by both parties, and driven from his station in his declining age, yet singing on, unabated cheerfulness, to the last."

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