4 OCTOBER 1913, Page 14

THE CHARM OF THE WEST COUNTRY.

The Charm of the West Country. Compiled by Thomas Burke. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. Leather, 3s. 6d.; cloth, 2s. 6d. net.)—In this well-chosen little anthology we can find almost every pleasant aspect of the West of England, for rightly enough the sunny days are those that Mr. Burke wishes to set before us, in prose and verse. Old songs and ballads are agreeably mingled with passages from modern writers, and at the end of the volume we are given "The Childe of Bristow," a fifteenth-century poem attributed to John Lydgate. There is also a short glossary.