Anthony Pasquin, a cynical shoemaker of the fifteenth century. The word Pasquinade still perpetuates his memory.

P. 372. a red riband. The Order of the Bath has for its insignia a red riband, with jewelled star or cross attached.

a coronet, i.e. a peerage.

P. 373. Covent Garden. See note to p. 89.

P. 375. the Hayleys and Sewards. Thomas Hayley was a poet and Anna Seward a poetess of the last century, now practically forgotten.

Studies in English Composition

By HARRIET C. KEELER, High School, Cleveland, Ohio, and EMMA C. DAVIS, Cleveland, Ohio. 12mo, cloth, 210 pages. Price, 80 cents.

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HIS book is the outgrowth of experience in teaching composition, and the lessons which it contains have all borne the actual test of the class-room. Intended to meet the wants of those schools which have composition as a weekly exercise in their course of study, it contains an orderly succession of topics adapted to the age and development of high school pupils, together with such lessons in language and rhetoric as are of constant application in class exercises.

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From Milton to Tennyson

Masterpieces of English Poetry. Edited by L. DU PONT SYLE, University of California, 12mo, cloth, 480 pages. Price, $1.00.

N this work the editor has endeavored to bring together within

descriptive, and lyric verse as a student may reasonably be required to read critically for entrance to college. From the nineteen poets represented, only such masterpieces have been selected as are within the range of the understanding and the sympathy of the high school student. Each masterpiece is given complete, except for pedagogical reasons in the cases of Thomson, Cowper, Byron, and Browning. Exigencies of space have compelled the editor reluctantly to omit Scott from this volume. The copyright laws, of course, exclude American poets from the scope of this work.

The low price of the book, together with its strong and attractive binding, make it especially desirable for those teachers who read with their classes even a small part of the poems it contains. President D. S. Jordan, Leland Stanford, Jr., University, Cal.: I have received the copy of Mr. Syle's book, " From Milton to Tennyson," and have looked it over with a great deal of interest. It seems to be an excellent work for the purpose. The selections seem well adapted to high school use, and the notes are wisely chosen and well stated.

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