20 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 10

For Remembrance. By Lady Laura Hampton. (Longmans and Co.)—The plan

of Lady Laura Hampton's volume is to give for each day three quotations, illustrative respectively of births, baptisms, and deaths. This plan has been carried out with much industry, and by a selection which, to say the least, contains many good things. Of course there are difficulties which it can hardly be possible to overcome, especially in the third division. A considerable proportion of the quotations are appropriate to the death of children. If the death to be in " remembrance " is one of an older person, and falls on one of the days so occupied, what can be done ? We observe on p. 36 "Dream of Gerontious." If the dates of the poets quoted were to be given, it would have been better to give both birth and death.