Poets' Walk : an Introduction to English Poetry. Chosen and
Arranged by Mowbray Morris. New and Revised Edition. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume dedicated to Eton boys and also, as Mr. Morris says in the preface, to "children of a larger growth," is worthy of its place in the "Golden Treasury Series." The poems range from those of the Elizabethans to those of Tennyson, and their sequence has been well thought out. For instance, the passage from "Omar" beginning "The worldly hope men set their hearts upon" is followed by the Spring Song from " Pippo Passes." Mr. Morris gives a number of ex- tracts from long poems, and in many cases this is, no doubt, the right °purse ; but it was surely a mistake to omit the verses at the beginning and end of the "Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle," in which Wordsworth may almost be said to sum up his whole philosophy.
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