_Warriors and Statesmen_ (MURRAY) is a book selected from the "gleanings" of the late Lord BRASSEY. Such gleanings depend so largely on the personality of the gleaner that they may be worth anything or nothing; so let me say at once that Lord BRASSEY had too sound a taste to be a collector of ill-considered trifles. Although warriors have the place of honour in the title they are given but little space in the book. Still, in these days the soldier can well afford to let the statesman have the advantage in a collection that does not deal with the living. This limitation may explain the absence of all mention of Lord ROBERTS, who was probably still alive when the gleanings were completed. Apart from the evidence it gives of a fine mind the book preserves much that is worth remembering and presents it in a convenient form. For this we have in part to thank Mr. HORACE HUTCHINSON, to whom Lord BRASSEY entrusted the work of selecting these literary sheaves. * * * * * _From the Home Front_ (CONSTABLE) is a further, and rather belated, selection from the War verses that have appeared from week to week on the second page of _Punch_. Conscious of cherishing a natural prejudice in favour of his own productions, Mr. Punch forbears to commend this little volume, but he may permit himself to say that, in the judgment of _The Daily News_, which is above suspicion of bias, it is calculated to provoke "a sorrow chequered by disgust." [Illustration: _Topical Huckster_. "'ERE YOU ARE, LADY--AS CHEWED BY THE PRESIDENT."] * * * * * "This royal throne of kings, This sceptical isle, this seat of Mars." _Quotation by Miss MARIE CORELLI in "The Pall Mall Gazette."_ No man is a prophet in his own country, and this is how Shakespeare gets treated at Stratford-on-Avon.