We have received a number of books of extracts and
anthologies which may be noticed together. First we would put The Sacred Seasons: Readings Selected from the Writings of Handley C. G. Houle, D.D. (Seeley and Co., Gs. net). The volume is handsomely got U, both within and without, with illuminated borders (for the great festivals), initial letters, &c. Of the quality of the litera- ture it is needless to speak. Whatever Bishop Moule writes shows thoughtfulness and depth.—The Pilgrims' Way. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d. and 5s. net.)— " Though a holiday is good," says the editor of this volume, "a pilgrimage is better." And this is the "little scrip of good counsel" which he provides for such travellers. The items, taken from a wide range of authorship, are classified. "Childhood," "Youth," "The Forerunner," "Divine Love," "Human Love," are the titles of the first five sections, and "Bereavement and Consolation," "Age," "Death," of the list three. A very delightful book this.—The Bird in Song. Edited by Robert Sicken. (E. Grant Richards. 2s. and 3s. 6d. net.)—Thirty-four birds, from the sparrow to the eagle, are celebrated in Mr. Sickert's pages, by sixty-five poets. The nightingale has been the most honoured. He has had ten Laureates ; next to him comes the lark with nine. The parrot has to be content with one, and Cowper is hardly at his best when he sighs about Belinda, and her pet. Could we not have had a translation of Ovid's "Psittacus Eois imitatrix ales ab oris " But it is a well-chosen garland.—Finally, we have An Anthology of Australian Verse, Edited by Bertram Stevens (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d. net), a volume both relatively and absolutely interesting.
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