21 JANUARY 1911, Page 24

Verselets and Versions. By G. J. Cowley-Brown, M.A. (Robert 'Grant

and Son, Edinburgh.)—The best thing in this little book is, we think, the adaptation of an Arab legend which 'Lamar-tine relates in his "Voyage en Orient." It tells how Solomon chose as the site for his Temple a place " where 'brethren dwell in sweet accord." Two brothers have equal shares in the harvest of a field,—one is married, the other single. The bachelor adds sheaves from his heap because the brother has

• ethers to support; the benedict does the same because his partner is lonely. It reminds us of some of Leigh Hunt's best work. " The Legend of St. Loup " is specially good also when it tells how the 'robber wolf became St. Loup.