6 DECEMBER 1913, Page 12

Children in Verse. Collected and edited by Thomas Burke. (Duckworth

and Co. 5s. net.)—This anthology will give pleasure to lovers of children. The fifty songs it contains are well chosen, and range from grave to gay, from William Blake to Owen Seaman. A few of them are, and quite rightly, to be found in almost every collection of verse, while others have freshness as well as charm to recommend them. They are all, to quote the last line of the dedication "To a Nursery Friend "—

"Songs of life's first loveliness—

Songs that speak of you!"

Miss Honor Appleton's coloured and black-and-white illustra- tions are of pretty and attractive children in appropriate surroundings.