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" It is customary," says Mr. Havelock Ellis, " to

regard Shenstone as a poet," though Miss Edith Sitwell would not agree with him here. But Mr. Ellis continues, " It is in his completely neglected prose that he is most generally inter- esting and Trost impressive," and accordingly we have here submitted to us Mr. Ellis's selection from Shenstone's Men and Manners (The Golden Cockerel Press, 15s.), a dainty chaplet of pensies in an English prose that " corresponds to the work of the great- French writers in that kind." A special word needs to be said about this little volume's excellence of British hand-made paper and typography ; it is so pleasant too to observe that the printers take due note of artistry in craftsmanship by giving the names of the compositors and the pressman.