11 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 27

A Concordance to the Poems of William Wordsworth. Edited by

Lane Cooper. (Smith, Elder and Co. 42s. net.)—There is in the United States of America a Concordance Society. A Con- cordance of the Poems of Thomas Gray has already appeared under its auspices ; a far more laborious effort now appears. All the poems have been dealt with, some of them being but little known to the general reader, and the result is a closely printed quarto volume of 1,136 double-column pages containing, we may conjecture, about a million and three-quarters of words, figures not being reckoned. A list of forty-nine contributors is given, twenty-three women and twenty-six men, all American.