11 JUNE 1910, Page 29

An anthology is never out of place, and so we

welcome Songs and Poems, Compiled by D. R. Broadbent (John Ouseley, 7s. 6d. net). There is a great gap, it is true, between Herrick and Burns. Not a specimen is given of what used to be called, and not without reason, the "Augustan age" of English literature. Even if we are to go without Dryden and Pope, something of William Cowper might have been allowed us.