What Men Have Said about Women. Compiled by H. Southgate,
with Illustrations by J. D. Watson. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.)—
The ladies ought to support Mr. Southgate, for ho has collected to-
gether a very pretty volume, full of choice flattery. All writers, from Shakespeare down to the Rev. Mr. Bellow, are made to contribute a flower
to the wreath he brings them. Not nnfrequently, however, the poets are, it must be confessed, pressed into the service, the compliments which are extracted from their works having.been addressed not to woman in the abstract, but to some particular fair one. But we hasten to admit that they might with equal truth and propriety have been applied to every member of the sex who is or will be. Seriously the extracts are really good, just like Paganini's playing, and if you don't mind the music being all on one string the book is a first-rate one.
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