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florae Solitariae. By Edward Thomas. (Duckwtorth and Co. 2s. 6d.)—These

scholarly musings have a very general flavour about them of the classics and Izaak Walton. The wealth of allusion is somewhat redundant; in fact, the wanderings of fancy in search of the ideal are a little "heady." But the charm is undoubted, and the soberer pages have imagination and colour enough to make 'very pleasant reading for an hour or so. One could wish that there had been more character sketches. Slight as they are, those in Horse Solitariae are distinctly attractive. "The Two Scholars," and " Hengest : a Kentish Study," are perhaps the best of them.