THE ESSAYS collected by the literary executors of Mortimer Collins are among the most attractive of his works. He was an extensive reader, not only of English literature, but of the Greek and Roman classics. He loved poetry and wit, and he is equally at home with Shakespeare and with Horace. He was born in Plymouth, June 29th, 1827. Among the poems which gave him popularity are “Idyls and Rhymes,” “Summer Songs,” and “The British Birds.” Among his novels are “Sweet Anne Page,” “The Ivory Gate,” and “Blacksmith and Scholar.” His essays were collected in “Pen Sketches from the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins.” (London 1879).