7 JULY 1906, Page 33

The Hampstead Garner. Compiled by A. M. C. (Elliot Stock.

3s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a selection of passages in verse, one for every day in the year, taken from poets who were born in Hampstead, or wrote while they lived there, or have celebrated its charms in verse. Vacant places are filled by quotations from others. The introductory sonnet is by Leigh Hunt ; we see the names of Joanna Bailie, W. Blake, S. Rogers, P. B. Shelley, and others, for Hampstead can boast of many tuneful children, belonging to her either by birth or by adoption.