+Melville B. Anderson+, _Prof. of English Literature, Purdue Univ., in “The Dial,” Chicago_: The arguments to the poems are made with rare judgment. Many mature readers have hitherto been repelled from Browning by real difficulties such as obstruct the way to the inner sanctuary of every great poet’s thought. Such readers may well be glad of some sort of a path up the rude steeps the poet has climbed and whither he beckons all who can to follow him. (_January, 1887._) +Queries+, _Buffalo, N.Y._: It is the most noteworthy treatise on the poetry of Browning yet published. Professor Corson is well informed upon the poetic literature of the age, is an admirably clear writer, and brings to the subject he has in hand ample knowledge and due-- we had almost said undue-- reverence. It has been a labor of love, and he has performed it well. The book will be a popular one, as readers who are not familiar with or do not understand Browning’s poetry either from incompetency, indolence, or lack of time, can here gain a fair idea of Browning’s poetical aims, influence, and works without much effort, or the expense of intellectual effort. Persons who have made a study of Browning’s poetry will welcome it as a matter of course. (_December, 1886._) +Education+, _Boston_: Any effort to aid and guide the young in the study of Robert Browning’s poetry is to be commended. But when the editor is able to grasp the hidden meaning and make conspicuous the poetic beauties of so famous an author, and, withal, give such clever hints, directions, and guidance to the understanding and the enjoyment of the poems, he lays us all under unusual obligations. It is to be hoped that this book will come into general use in the high schools, academies, and colleges of America. It is beautifully printed, in clear type, on good paper, and is well bound. (_February, 1887._) _THE STUDY OF ENGLISH._ _Practical Lessons in the Use of English._ For Primary and Grammar Schools. By MARY F. HYDE, Teacher of Composition in the State Normal School, Albany, N.Y. This work consists of a series of _Practical Lessons_, designed to aid the pupil in his own use of English, and to assist him in understanding its use by others. No topic is introduced for study that does not have some practical bearing upon one or the other of these two points. The pupil is first led to observe certain facts about the language, and then he is required to apply those facts in various exercises. At every step in his work he is compelled to think. The Written Exercises are a distinctive feature of this work. These exercises not only give the pupil daily practice in using the knowledge acquired, but lead him to form the habit of independent work.