Poetry
WRIT IN BARRACKS.
By Edgar Wallace. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Mr. Edgar Wallace, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, is a follower of Mr. Kipling, and his ballads of soldier life and sufferings are well-known in South Africa. They are spirited, pathetic, and true, and at the present time they should enjoy a considerable popularity.
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Translated by Edward FitzGerald, with a Commentary by H. M. Batson, and a Biography of Omar by E. D. Ross. 6s.
This edition of the famous book, the text of which is printed by permission of Messrs. Macmillan, is the most complete in existence. It contains FitzGerald's last text, and a very full commentary on each stanza. Professor Ross, who is an admirable Persian scholar, contributes a biography, containing many new, valuable, and interesting facts.
Scientific and Educational
THE CAPTIVI OF PLAUTUS.
Edited, with an Introduction, Textual Notes, and a Commentary, by W. M. Lindsay, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
For this edition all the important MSS. have been re-collated. An appendix deals with the accentual element in early Latin verse. The Commentary is very full.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE INDUCTION COILS.