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a compara.tively new author who has gained something like news–

paper notoriety.

attempting to lead him on from the good

books that are known to those that are less known, the pub–

lishers may have at times been too adventurous. The

Chie/

himself (as a mere eilitor may say) has been much more than

an ordinary book-producer in this critica! enterprise. He has

thrown himself into it with the zeal of a book-lover and indeed

of one who, like Milton, thought that books might be as alive

and productive as dragons' teeth, which, being "sown up and

down the land, might chance to spring up armed men."

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