27 JUNE 1903, Page 14

Songs from the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. (Brimley John-

son. 2s. 6d.)-To collect Peacock's songs into a little volume was well worth doing, and we take it as an additional attraction that there is no introduction or preface by a modern man of letters. This kind of showman is often a non-conductor of sympathy between the author and reader. Peacock wrote real songs. Whether he sings the " War Song of Dines Vawr" or of the " Greenwood Tree," there is the true, the inevitable, ring about them.