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Round the Fire. Edited by Gertrude Fearon. (Simpk in, Marshall

and Co.)—This " Selection of Poems and Ballads suit- able for Home and School" may be recommended without hesita- tion. There are some hundred and fifty of the poems and ballads in all, and there are few of our old favourites, Tennyson excepted— absent, we presume, from considerations of copyright—that are not to be found among them. "The Armada," " Horatius," "The Execution of Montrose," " Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace Bled," " The Sands of Dee," " The Wreck of the ' Hesperus,' " " Sir Andrew Barton," "Abu Ben Adhen," "The Laird of Cockpen," " Bishop Hatto," " John Gilpin," " Hohenlinden "—to take some names almost at random—are to be found in the table of contents.