27 JANUARY 1906, Page 14

Wings and Spurs, Arranged by L. H. M. Soulsby (Longmans

and Co., Is. net), is a collection of quotations, one for every day of the year, from Dante, Emerson, Browning, Wordsworth, Sir A. Helps, George Macdonald, George Eliot, R. L. Stevenson, and others, which will be found suitable for the purpose suggested by the title.-With this we may mention Simples from Sir Thomas Browne's Garden, Gathered by H. C. Minchin (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 3s. 6d. net).