But this is a minor fault and probably inescapable in an edition which offers so much to the reader.

Renaissance Quarterly

lay-out is in double column, with the text on one side of the page and the notes on the other; and every care has been taken to keep the notes close to the appropriate verses, so that the irritating necessity to turn over the page or look to the back of the volume is avoided. The notes are often more extensive than the poem itself, which means that blank spaces occur from time to time between the verses so that text and commentary can stay opposite each other; and one wonders whether perhaps a slightly larger type might not have been used for the text to make it more readable. This is a scholar's edition, not one simply to be browsed through. But this is a minor fault and probably inescapable in an edition which offers so much to the reader. Hamilton's Faerie Queene is up to the best standard of this very distinguished series, and its only real fault—and it is, unfortunately a serious one for the ordinary student—is that of price. At $50 or £25, it is a book only for libraries and fortunate reviewers. UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Maurice Evans

But this is a minor fault and probably inescapable in an edition which offers so much to the reader.

The Unity of the Faerie Queene.Ronald Arthur Horton