AROUND Harvard the Everymans Library is probably the most extensively read of any of the various uniformly printed, series. Certainly it is the most comprehensive and within its 857 odd volumes can be found many of the required texts for courses, material otherwise unprocurable except perhaps for a single copy on the Widener shelves. These latest additions to the Library will be welcomed by students of eighteenth century literature and in particular those students who are enrolled in Comp. Lit. II.

"The Conversations with Eckermann" is a Boswellian work in which the true personality of Goethe is presented by means of an assiduous recording of his conversations and actions on the part of the humble Eckermann. As in Boswell Eckermann consciously plays the fool at times in order to set off the admirable qualities of his subject. However he rarely intrudes his own personality into the work and the reader is left with a feeling of intimate acquaintance with the man Goethe. The republication of a long inaccessible volume on a man of such a rich and varied character as that of Goethe's ought to make it one of the more popular volumes in the series.

The Enghteenth Century Novels contains three works: Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas", Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto", and "Vathek" by Beckford. Their interest is more for the specialist in eighteenth century novels and Gothic romances than the first mentioned volume which makes good reading even for those not at all interested in its historical significance. Rasselas in perhaps the best of the three novels and a reading of it will prove the charm of Dr. Jhonson's writing which critics are apt to pass over in their exposure of the novel's faults.