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| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 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 
No 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 history of culture she has 
produced a book that one cannot do without. I know of no other 
place where so much of value in its own field is given, where the course 
of general culture of that day is so well exhibited. 
_ Elkanah Setile: His Life and Works. By Frank C. Brown. 
190 pages, 8vo, cloth 
This little-known poet, whom Pope sketched in the Dunciad 
: (TIT, 35~42), is here set before the reader as clearly as the present 
: State of the sources permits. He was born in 1648 and died in 
_ 1724, and the list of his plays and other writings in verse and 
Prose is a considerable one. The book includes a painstaking 
_ biography, a list of the writings known to be his, a critical dis- 
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n of his work, and a valuable bibliography. Half-tones 
from old prints, title dd to the attractiveness of the 
: ’ -pages, etc., a ot : 
: volume. Apart from the interest that literary students will feel 
: in this raising of an old poet from obscurity, 
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