SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this hroding 166 et obi ea such Books of the week as babe not been o nett ed for review in other forms.1 Ideals of Living. Selected and edited by Grace E. Hadow. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 2s. 6d. net.)—In Ideals of Living we have a charming and interesting anthology. The skilful compiler sets before us by means of quotation the classical, Biblical, medieval, and modern moral ideal, together with that of Confucius and the Dhammapada. (Nothing from the Koran—a curious omission.) The notes are admirable, and with their help the book could be understood and enjoyed by any intelligent person. The quotations are not too short. For instance, Plato, Aristotle, Epietetus, Cicero, and Seneca cover nearly a hundred pages of not very large print. A good many pages out of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" have been well chosen to represent the ideals of the change of thought caused by the Renaissance in England. Milton, Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, and that charming writer, Thomas Traherne, suggest the moral thought of the seventeenth Century; Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Browning bring us nearly to our own times. The proportion of poetry to prose is very small, and Milton is represented by a passage from the " A.reopagitica."
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