THE UNIVERSITY OF GCHRICAGO PRESS 
The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry. By Myra Reynolds, 
Associate Professor of English Literature in the University of 
Chicago. 
410 pages, 8vo, cloth; postpaid $2.70 
0 phenomenon in the history of English literature is more 
interesting than the growth of the appreciation of nature by the - 
poets. Professor Reynolds has traced this development from 
the times of Dryden and Pope, through a legion of major and 
minor poets, to Thomson, Goldsmith, and Gray, with the pains-. 
taking care that distinguished her work in The Poems of Anne 
Countess of Winchilsea. Extremely original and valuable are her — 
investigations into the arts parallel to poetry. She treats of 
fiction from Richardson to Mrs. Radcliffe, nature in garden- 
ing, the appreciation for nature manifested in published travels, 
and the attitude of painters toward landscape painting. The 
book is illustrated with copies from the work of contemporary 
artists 
The Nation. As a work of reference the book is highly valuable. 
E. E. Hale, Jr., in the Dial. In the field of the ey of cxlicee she as : 
produced a book that one cannot do without. I know of no other 
place where so much of value in its own field is yee where the course 
= Se) caste aE Oye ee eotals es 
= Elkanah Selle: His is Life and Works. By Frank C Brown. 
“190 pages, 8v0, cloth; postpaid $1.39 ie epee 
. This Kitle knows poet, whom Pope sketched in | the Junciad 
(II, 35-42), is here set before the reader as clearly as the present — 
__ State of the sources permits. He was born i ‘in 1648 anc died in E 
= 1724, and the list of = eae and other rritin 
from o prints, : pages, etc., add to : veness fe 
Be olins Apart from the interest that teary students aikiel 
in this raising of an old poet from. ol curt t pe 
a will have ot value for th e sidelich 
