29 JANUARY 1898, Page 14

A Selection from the Poems of Hathilde Blind, by Arthur

Symons (T. Fisher Unwin), brings together conveniently what is beat worth preserving of a gifted woman whose powers of expression were scarcely equal to her powers of thought and earnestness of purpose.

We have received a third edition, "revised and brought up to date by the author," of The Dawn of Civilisation : Egypt and Chaldwa, by G. blooper°, edited by A. H. Sayce, translated by M. L. McClure (S.P.C.K.)