ine articles have
been written on the "corner of Dorsetshire" which Hardy calls
Wessex. Good books on the Hardy country are _The Wessex of
Romance_, by W. Sherren, and _The Wessex of Thomas Hardy_, by
Windle.

KIPLING

The standard edition of Kipling is the Outward Bound edition,
published in this country by the Scribners. It contains a
general introduction by the author and special prefaces to
each volume, with illustrations from bas reliefs made by the
novelist's father. Doubleday, Page & Co. are issuing a pocket
edition of Kipling, on thin paper with flexible leather
binding, which is very convenient. Any additional books will
be added to each of these editions. Kipling has told of his
early life in India and of his precocious literary activity in
_My First Book_ (1894). Richard Le Gallienne made a study of
the novelist in _Rudyard Kipling--A Criticism_ and Edmund
Gosse in _Questions at Issue_ discusses his short stories.
Prof. William Lyon Phelps in _Essays on Modern Novelists_ has
a fine chapter on Kipling. Andrew Lang in _Essays in Little_
treats of "Mr. Kipling's Stories" and Barrie has an
appreciation in CONTEMPORARY REVIEW for March, 1891. A useful
_Kipling Index_ is issued by Doubleday, Page & Co. All titles
are indexed so that one may locate any story or character.

_Index_

A Blot on the 'Scutcheon, 108, 110, 113.

A Child's Garden of Verse, 125.

Adam Bede, 65, 76, 82, 84.

Addison, 58.

A Dissertation on Roast Pig, 41, 71.

A Dream of Fair Women, 99.

Adventures of Philip, The, 60.

Aes Triplex, 130.

Agnes Gray, 71.

A Gossip on Romance, 130.

A Lodging for the Night, 124, 129.

Alison Cunningham, 125.

Allahabad Pioneer, 144.

Amazing Marriage, The, 122.

An English Mail Coach, 31.

An Habitation Enforced, 148.

An Inland Voyage, 126.

Anglo-Indian Life, 146.

Antiquary, The, 18.

A Pair of Blue Eyes, 135.

Apostles, 99.

Arnold, 116.

Arthurian Legends, 101.

Ashburton, Lady, 25.

Ashby de la Zouch, 17.

Asolando, 108, 111.

A Soldier of France, 12.

Asolo, 113.

A Soul's Tragedy, 108, 110, 113.

A Tale of Two Cities, 53.

Austro-Italian War, 118.

A Window in Thrums, 39.

Balestier, Wolcott, 145.

Ballantyne, 16, 90.

Balzac, 12.

Balzac's Seraphita, 74.

Bank of England, 109.

Barrett, Elizabeth, 110.

Barrie, 39.

Bathsheba Everdene,