The French and English Birthday - Book. Compiled by Kate D. Clark.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—There is a certain novelty about this book ; to have twelve French and twelve English poets to -choose from, and these twelve among the greatest, if not the greatest, of their nations, is much better than to have at one's disposal the works of a single writer, who need not be very eminent, to judge from some of the birthday-books that we have seen. The poets are taken in chronological order. Thus, Malherbe and Chaucer furnish the extracts for January, and Victor Hugo and Browning for December. Each day has two quotations. Bat could not some poet have been found more correspondent in time to Chaucer ? Why not Clement Marot P—Another volume of poetical extracts," selected from the works of British and American Poets and Dramatists," is Poetic Imagery, by the late John Pitt- Taylor. Edited by his daughter, Hester Louisa Pitt-Taylor.
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