20 JANUARY 1906, Page 22

Two pretty little volumes in the "Broadway Booklets" series (G.

Boutledge and Sons, 6d. each) are Old Christmas, by Washington Irving, and Songs Irons Shakespeare, Illus- trated with Reproductions of Etchings of the Etching Club by T. Creswick, J. C. Horsley, and others. These are twenty- six in all, and they are not a little commended by the drawings which accompany them.—Another anthology is The Footpath Way, Compiled by Alfred H. Hyatt (T. N. Foulis, 3s. 6d. net), a selection of prose and verse, "intended for those who, in search of quiet, desire to refresh the mind while resting beside the foot- path way.' "