introduction by W. E. Henley,
are pleasant to read. They are published by Jack, of Edinburgh. The
best single-volume _Burns_ is that in the Globe Library (Macmillan), with
an introduction by Alexander Smith.

{264d} There is no rival to the one-volume edition of _Coleridge's
Poems_, with an introduction by J. Dykes Campbell, published by
Macmillan. Mr. Dykes Campbell's biography of Coleridge should also be
read. The prose works of Coleridge are obtainable in Bohn's Library. The
fortunate book lover has many in Pickering editions.

{264e} _Cowper's Complete Works_ are acquired for a modest sum of the
second-hand bookseller in Southey's sixteen-volume edition. The two best
one-volume issues of the _Poems_ are the Globe Library Edition with an
introduction by Canon Benham (Macmillan), and _Cowper's Complete Poems_
with an introduction by J. C. Bailey (Methuen). The best of the letters
are contained in a volume in the Golden Treasury Series, with an
introduction by Mrs. Oliphant. _The Complete Letters of Cowper_, edited
by Thomas Wright, have been published by Hodder & Stoughton in four
volumes.

{265a} _Crabbe's Works_, in eight volumes, with biography by his son,
may be obtained very cheaply from the second-hand book seller. With all
the merits of both _Works_ and _Life_ they have not been reprinted
satisfactorily. The only good modern edition of _Crabbe's Poems_ is in
three volumes published by the Cambridge University Press, edited by A.
W. Ward.

{265b} The best one-volume _Tennyson_ is issued by the Macmillans, who
still hold certain copyrights. The Library Edition of _Tennyson_, with
the Biography included in the twelve volumes, is a desirable acquisition.

{265c} Not all the sixteen volumes of the Library Edition of _Browning_
pay for perusal. The most convenient form is that of the two-volume
edition (Smith, Elder & Co.), with notes by Augustine Birrell.

{265d} _Milton's Poetical Works_ as annotated by David Masson
(Macmillan) make the standard library edition, and the same publishers
have given us the best one-volume _Milton_ in the Globe Library, with an
introduction by Professor Masson, Milton's one effective biographer.

{266a} _The Arabian Nights' Entertainments_ is first introduced to us
all as a children's story-book. Tennyson has placed on record his own
early memories:--

"In sooth it was a goodly time,
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid."