3 JULY 1909, page 27

Recent Verse.*

THE verse of a distinguished prose-writer deserves to be treated with all respect. Even if it fails as poetry, it will not be without its quality, for the writer, though dealing......

Mr. Fletcher's History Of England.* Mn. Fletcher Remarks...

preface that these two con- cluding volumes of his Introductory History differ to some extent from their predecessors. "The book," he says, "has unconsciously 'grown up.' It......