30 JUNE 1906, Page 41

The Rose Garden of Sa'di. Selected and Translated %y L.

Cramner-Byng. (J. Murray. 18.)—Lovers of Persian poetry will be pleased with this little book of selections from the " Gulistan." If it is at times rather uninspired in language, and has not the quaint charm of some older versions, such as that by Demoulins, published in Calcutta a hundred years ago, it is nevertheless not unwelcome,