12 JUNE 1926, Page 34

, Many beautiful and expensive volumes come to us, but

Messix. Blackie's sixpenny editions of Standard English Classics sometimes have more gold in their small bodies than is con- tained in many a wide margined folio Of stately print. Songs of Innocence and of Experience has just reached us *: we have walked with Blake beside the Thames and ranged a-tiger-: -back from the " mind-forged manacles". of many books to the jungles of joy he planted.

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