23 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 18

A Bcot of Anniversaries. Compiled by P. Askell Benton.

(H. Milford. 38. net.)—This attractive little book reoords some of the anniversaries for each day of the year with appropriate quotations in verse or prose. For New Year's Day we have the Union with Ireland and the birth of A. H. Clough, whose fine poem "Say not, the struggle nought availeth," is given at length. Under January 25th are recorded the birth of Robert Burns and the marriage of the Princess Royal to the Crown Prince of Prussia, with the Shakespearean motto, "Good wombs have borne bad sons." For Trafalgar Day the quotation in "The victory that day was turned into mourning" from the Second Book of Samuel. Mr. Benton has read widely and his extracts are interesting.