4 MARCH 1911, Page 23

An Ethical Diary. Selected and edited by W. Garrett Holder.

(J. M. Dent and Sons. 2s. and 4s.)—Every day has its own extract from some moralist or philosopher. It is easy to believe that a book constructed on this principle may be of great practical useful- ness. You look out the day, and find something of counsel or warning which may quite possibly be of the nature of a guiding or suggestion. The editor has gone far in making his choice. We see the names of Marcus Aurelius, Bacon, Arthur Helps, Emerson, Burke, Epictetus, Cicero, Mazzini, S. Francis de Sales, Sir Thomas Blount, F. W. Faber, S. Francis de Assisi, Montaigne, Phillips Brooks, Heine.