11 MAY 1907, Page 26

Great Minds at One. Compiled by F. M. Hornby. (T.

Fisher lJnwin. 3s. 6d. net.)—In this "Year's Parallels in Prose and Verse" we find a number, of good things which we are glad to make or renew acquaintance with, even though the parallel is not always quite clear. Euripides's "The tongue bath sworn but not the heart" (which Dionysus quotes so appropriately in the Frogs), Tennyson's "A lie that is half a truth 'Is ever the blackest of lies," and Ruskin's " The essence of lying is in deception, not in words," scarcely seem alike. But the resemblances are often striking, and Miss Hornby sometimes shows no little subtlety in discerning them.