SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] THREE ANTHOLOGIES.—The Voice of the Garden. Compiled by Lucy Leffingwell Cable Bible. With a preface by George W. Cable. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—The extracts in prose and verse that make up this garden anthology have been well chosen. "In garden delights it is not easy to hold a mediocrity ; that in- sinuating pleasure is seldom -without some extremity." So says Sir Thomas Browne ; and this book shows how widespread among men of letters has been the enthusiasm for gardens. Sappho and Sa'di, Solomon and Swinburne all alike are shown to have been under the thrall. In these days of garden-suburbs such a collec- tion as this should obtain the popularity it merits.—In the Garden of Delight : a Nature Anthology in Prose and Verse. By John Richardson. (George G. Harrap. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Richardson takes a wider.field than Miss Bible—takes, in fact, all nature for his theme. He thus loses a little point for his anthology as a whole, though the individual selections are pleasant and by no means hackneyed. —The Yale Book of American Verse. Edited by Thomas R. Lounsbnry. (Henry Frowde. 10s. net.)—The great interest of this anthology scarcely needs emphasis. Englishmen will read it, not for the famous poems which have crossed the Atlantic and found their way into English anthologies—not for "Truthful James," or "The Psalm of Life," or " The Raven "—but for the many less- known pieces which it contains. We may mention that only dead writers are included in the book.
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