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Mr. J. C. Squire has consulted his own taste in

his new anthology of parodies, Apes and ParroLs (Jenkins, 6s.) ; and he has included nothing which did not in fact amuse him. Parodies are apt to be distressingly dull when topical interest has vanished ; this is a fault •-which Mr. Squire's selection entirely escapes. Many of the most famous parodies are here ; but the scope of the volume is enlarged to include a few prose parodies and several parodies of writers of our own generation. Perhaps the cruelest and most amusing of all the inclusions is Prof. A. E. Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.

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