The poems are divided according to form; one volume containing ballads; another, odes and sonnets; another, lyrics; and so on. This is a rational, but not a practical, principle of division, for it is better to have the selections, say, from Keats, together in one’s anthology than to have his sonnets in one volume and his lyrics in another. A poet and his poetry are very definite units, but the lines between lyrics and ballads and odes are not sharp and, on the whole, not important. _Lyra Heroica_, edited by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY, and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Called “a book of verse for boys”; really a book of verse for everybody, consisting of the martial, the heroic, the patriotic, from the old English ballads to Rudyard Kipling. _A Victorian Anthology_, edited by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A remarkably adequate collection of English poems of the last seventy years. _An American Anthology_, edited by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, and published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Not only a wise selection of the best American poetry, but a complete survey of the poetic utterance of this country, from a biographical and historical point of view. _The Golden Treasury_, edited by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE, and published by Macmillan (see page 109 of this Guide). _The Golden Treasury_, second series, edited by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE. This continues the first _Golden Treasury_ and includes the Victorian poets. It is not so complete as Stedman’s _Anthology_, but costs only half as much. _The Children’s Treasury of Lyrical Poetry_, edited by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE. _The Children’s Garland from the Best Poets_, edited by COVENTRY PATMORE. The two foregoing are in the _Golden Treasury Series_, and published by Macmillan. _Elizabethan Lyrics_, edited by FELIX E. SCHELLING. An inexpensive collection, published by Ginn & Co., covering the same period as is covered by about one sixth of the _Golden Treasury_, but in larger type and so pleasanter to read. _Seventeenth Century Lyrics_, edited by FELIX E. SCHELLING. Continues the volume mentioned above. _The Blue Poetry Book_, edited by ANDREW LANG. A good collection of verse intended by the editor for young people, and selected by him wisely, but quite whimsically, from poets he happens to like. _Golden Numbers_, edited by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH. An excellent anthology intended for youth. _Oxford Book of English Verse_, edited by ARTHUR T. QUILLER-COUCH. A handsome book which represents, in less degree than most anthologies, the traditional standards of excellence or traditionally excellent poets, and in rather greater degree the fine taste of the editor for the best. _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, edited by FRANCIS JAMES CHILD.