21 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 8

TWO Zseellent selections of poetry, ranking both of them high

among gift-books, may be mentioned together. These are The Boy's Own Reciter, for Home, School, and Platform Use, edited by G. A. Hutchison, and The Girl's Own Reciter, edited by Charles Peters (R.T.S., 2s. 6d. per vol.) The two books are well discriminated, with a general colour of action in the one, and sentiment, not sentimentality, be it understood, in the latter. To find no favourites omitted is too much to expect, but we may safely say that there are in both many fine things that were new, or almost as good as new.