11 DECEMBER 1915, Page 27

A Book qf Victorian Prose and Poetry. Compiled by Mrs.

Hugh Walker. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)— This selection from English writers has the particular purpose of illustrating Professor and Mrs. Walker's other volumes on Victorian literature. It is decidedly good and original, avoiding generally the most obvious or purple patches. In the case of Clough alone one example is probably his best-known poem. The whole is divided into "Systematic Thinkers," "Poetry," "Novelists," "History," and "Biography and Criticism." It should be of considerable value to teachers.