SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such, Books of the week as have not be reserved for review in other forms.)
Pro Petrie et Regina. Collected and Edited by Professor Knight. (MaeLehose and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Professor Knight sends forth this volume in response to a call made by the Queen (then Princess of Wales) for subscriptions le the Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund. Some sixty authors have contributed to it. Many of the poems are new, and indeed written for the purpose; others have been selected by the editor from the published works of the authors. We need not say that there is some excellent verse in a collection made under such circumstances. We would gladly make many quotations, but must limit ourselves to one. Not for the first time, Mr. Austin Dobson supplies something admirably suited for the occasion :—
" RANK-AND-FILE.
0 undistinguished dead!
Where the bent covers, or the rock-strewn steep Shows to the stars, for you I mourn—I weep, 0 undistinguished dead!
None knows your name.
Blackened and blurred in the wild battle's brunt, Hotly ye fell with all your wounds in front ; This is your fame I"
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