We may mention together two selections of poetry from the
other side of the Atlantic. English Verse : Chaucer to Burns. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)— The editors prefix an introduction which takes the reader back to the earliest writers of English verse, beginning as they do with Caedmon. In the selection they have contrived to give some pieces which will be new to many readers. Brief notes, descriptive of the authors from whom the extracts are taken, have been added.—The Poetry of the Lands, compiled by W. Clemmons Hunt (Porter and Coates, Phila- delphia), is a selection of a more comprehensive kind than we re- member to have seen before. Literatures, ancient and modern, have been laid under contribution, the choice of pieces and translators has been made with judgment, and the result is a remarkably interesting volume.
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