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of about three centuries, from Donne to writers who are

still

with W. Among these are the well-known Christmas hymn

Katawampus : its Treatment and Cure. By His Honour Judge beginning as Wesley begun it, "Hark ! how all the welkin E. A. Parry. Illustrated by Archie Macgregor. (D. Nutt.)— rings !" Watts's " Cradle Song," " Hush, my dear, lie still and "The Cure of Katawampus" relates the curing of the bad temper and sulks of some children, and introduces us to a cave slumber," which is not so well known as it deserves to be, and Edward Thring's " Happy night and happy silence downward and a goblin called " Krab." It is a pretty story, with a moral softly stealing." But among them all there are few better than and odd lines of poetry and humorous bite that will Mr. Andrew Lang's "Ballad of Christmas Ghosts," though it children. We quote the "Katawampus Chorus" :—

is curiously different in feeling from its predecessors. This is as " If you have theKatawampus well-chosen and complete a collection as we have seen. When the homeward tide is southerly and slack;