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Shepherd Songs of Elizabethan England. A. L. J. Gosset- (Constable

and Co. 55. net.)—There is little satisfaction to be got from criticising the selection of any anthology. The verses in this "pastoral garland" are taken from the works of Nash, Green, Pletcher, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jenson, Herrick, Sir Henry Wotton, "Sir John Wotton (who was he ?), and other poets who could write the best of poetry, and even rid pastoral verse of much of its artificiality. The King's eulogy of humble life from "King Henry VI." is also included.