. Arena magazine - Volume 40. or those who care to yield to the entranc-ing spell of poetry, art, history and the mysticmessage of the vanished past—a past great asit is mysterious and pregnant with hauntingtruths that sound the depths of philosophy andhave engaged the profoundest thought of sage,philosopher, dreamer and mystic since beforeThebes and Karnak were; before the Pyra-mids challenged Time and the Sphinx firstgazed with unseeing eyes over the waste ofearth in a vigil destined to stretch for ages erethe wind-strewn sands should entomb thesilent watcher. Untrodden English Ways. By Henr
. Arena magazine - Volume 40. or those who care to yield to the entranc-ing spell of poetry, art, history and the mysticmessage of the vanished past—a past great asit is mysterious and pregnant with hauntingtruths that sound the depths of philosophy andhave engaged the profoundest thought of sage,philosopher, dreamer and mystic since beforeThebes and Karnak were; before the Pyra-mids challenged Time and the Sphinx firstgazed with unseeing eyes over the waste ofearth in a vigil destined to stretch for ages erethe wind-strewn sands should entomb thesilent watcher. Untrodden English Ways. By Henry , author of Literary By-Paths in OldEngland, John Harvard and His Times, four plates in color, thirty-two full-pageplates in half-tone, and thirty illustrations inthe text from photographs specially takenby the author. Cloth. Pp. 341. Price,$ net. Boston: Little, Brown & Com-pany. Digitized by Google Our Literary Section: Best Books of the Holiday Season. 597 fit&ri&dfcc&c&c&^. & •eI «? 1 CO 8 V S Digitized by Google .598 Our Literary Section: Best Books of the Holiday Season. A land at once so rich in legend, song andstory, in historic interest and in picturesquebeauty as is England, is full of charm forthoughtful people of imagination and refinedtaste; while for Anglo-Saxons there is scarcelya nook or corner barren of interest. ForBritain, like Greece and Rome, has filled alarge place in the story of Western civilization where his charming presentation makes thesubject glow with new interest. To illustrate,we quote a few passages from his chapterentitled The Poets Corner: From Chaucer to Tennyson! Betweenthose two names, separated by five hundredyears, lies the splendid story of English litera-ture as it is summed up in the Poets Corner of
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