21 DECEMBER 1907, page 24

A Great " Punch " Editor.*

IT might seem an ill-advised enterprise to put together some six hundred pages about a man who died more than thirty. years ago, and who left nothing behind him that the world......

The Rise Of The Greek Epic.*

HOMER, like Mrs. Harris, is no longer the object of an un- reasoning faith. "I don't believe there's no rich a person," says critic after critic, but, unhappily, at more learned......

Novels.

THE FRUIT OF THE TREE.t MRS. WHA.RTON'S ability has so often been admitted in this column that we cannot be accused of prejudice if we express regret that it has been so......

Extinct Birds.*

THE printers and publishers have said their last word in this magnificent volume. It is a superb piece of book-making. Besides some two hundred and seventy pages of letterpress,......