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The Time of the Singing of Birds (H. Frowde, 3s.

6d. net) is an anthology of English poetry specially arranged to illustrate the subject. We have old and new verse in agreeable variety. The motto comes from Aristophanes ; Christina Rossetti furnishes a "foreword" in "The Seasons." The first poems of the "Spring" section are by John Lyly, King James I., S. T. Coleridge, W. Blake, Sir W. Davenant, T. Nash, C. Kingsley, and J. B. Tabb.