19 OCTOBER 1907, Page 23

Daily Thoughts from Horace. By F. H. Watkins, I.S.O. (G.

Bell and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—This is a new departure and one to be praised. It is not from books of the Horace type that such collections are commonly made. But without doubt there is plenty of admirable matter in Horace, quite wholesome, and with somethingof the preserving power which sal, be it of the literal or metaphoeiefibkintl, is bound to lave. Christopher Wordsworth, a man who ranks high among Anglican saints, had a Horace among the few books to which he turned in his last illness. Mr. Watkins gives two or more el-trimly for-every 'day of the year, with some-- - sighing pallid fromaro-Englialrolanio.