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The New Augustan Books of Modern Poetry, at the modest price of 6d. each, from Messrs. Benn consist of selections from

Tennyson, Burns, Poe, Lord Alfred Douglas, J. K. Stephen, and W. J. Turner. There is strange magic in :—

" I walked home with a gold dark boy And never a word I'd say ;

Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Had taken my speech away : . . "

Turner is a poet who should be better known. " In the wild moraine of forgotten books on the glacier of years gone by,"

as J. K. Stephens wrote, we may find, still fresh and beautiful, in these charming settings many a poem that we loved.