21 JUNE 1902, Page 26

Songs of England's Glory. (Isbister and Co. 38. 6d. net.)—

This is a pretty little book bound in Royal blue, and containing a selection of some eighty poems, most of them well known, though others have yet to win their way to a large public favour. We

Australian Commonwealth,"' by John Bernard • O'Hara. We can- Head Office:

not help saying that the prefatory notices to the pieces do not add to the reader's pleasure or information. If only four lines eould be given to Felicia Hemans, why expend two of them on the irrelevant statement that her husband's health was "broken by his sufferings in the retreat on Corunna "? may mention amon,g these "England'," by Mr. W. W. Campbell

(a Canadian poet), Mr. Neil Munro's To Exiles," and "The ALLIANCE