1 AUGUST 1914, Page 23

Latin Songs, with Music. Edited by Calvin S. Brown. (G.

P. Putnam's Sons. 9s. net.)—Mr. Brown has made an excellent collection of Latin songs, from Catalina to the Carmen Etonense, and has provided them with more or less appropriate music. We like the mediaeval part best ; the wide range of monkish Latin is well illustrated by the juxtaposition of those two masterpieces, the "Dies irae " and the " Meum eat propositum." Why is the delightful "Dulce cum sodalibus " omitted ?