2 MARCH 1889, Page 24

The Chaucer Birthday - Rook. Compiled by Harriet Waechter. (Griffith, Farran, and

Co.)—The arrangement of this " birthday- book " is slightly different from that commonly adopted. A separate page is allotted to each day, and the space for names is left below the extract or motto. These extracts are printed in black-letter. For the frontispiece, we have an engraved portrait of the poet, taken from a manuscript of Hodeve's poems in the Bodleian,—a characteristic face, which one can easily believe to have been Chaucer's.