... advance, and is probably the best work the author has yet pus forth. A GARLAND OF IRISH POETRY. r Mr. W. B. Yeats is in his element as the anthologist of modern Irishk poetry, and in: a delightful volume rreently published, and entitled A Book of Irish Verse ...

... the wonderful colouring of the Channel Islands in V summer. Mr. P. B. Nisbet has, however, a far keener } insight into the poetry of nature, and such -works as ` Winter's Lingering Suo w (37) and any of the half - dosen other drawings by which he is ...

... the stolen notes. (London: od Joltn McQueen.) NEW POETRY. le, We have lately received Poems by H:. Cumbaeland or Bentley, and in this elegant volume we have found several is good pieces of poetry-an event sufficiently unusual in as regard to such ...

... impossible to do more iithlan glance at one or tw~o typical aspects of Roman- c1tic Edinburgh, a city in wvhichl history and poetry ., seonL to blend. Mir. Geddie proves himself at once ta gare'uk'us and cutlliesiastic guide, and it soon be- ;comes plain ...

... -Hayes. Of Soogs of the Glens of Antrim,' by Moira 'NeXll, 'we must say tha* the authoress contrives to put much genuine poetry iuto her slender volume of 61 pages. She sings of the love passion in its gentler moods,, of ormnesickness for the lovely ...

... was an unequal perform- c ance, and it was quite evident that most of the eor-a petitors had no grasp of the spirit of the poetry which the music has very well interpreted. The attacks were a almost invariably weak, and the words slurred over. The first ...

... allowing for tl-t, there is so much spontaneity in the phrases. such charm of rythmic expression, in beautiful harmony with the poetry of Longfellow, as to stamp the Cantata as distinctly and, in aome passages, even sublimely creative. The Cantata is so wi ...

... thinkas old-fashioned as the aneat of lavender, and yet it is equally refreshing-at least, to those who are responsive to the poetry of association. Mr. George R. Sims-like the late George Augustus Sala-has an audience of his own, to which he makes a powerful ...

... the same, with his mental attainments, &c., ftc. The rest of the novel is like that. (London: William Heinemann.) PRECENT POETRY. The bizarre title, The Bashful Earthquake, which Mr. Oliver Eferford gives to his volume of verse, is not less etrange ...

... taken to such a dt'dnition. HRe was a gre-at critic of life no less I i than of literature.but it is not his prose, but his poetry by which he will be longest runembered, and this volume contains verse wvhihcu is marked by imagination and fancy. and whjich ...

... BOOKS RECEIVED. Popular County Histories: A History of Surrey. By f, ?? Malden, M.A. 7s. 6d. Elliot Stock.t A Diestery of Epic Poetry (Post Virgilian). By John e Clark, )M.A. Ss. Oliver and Boyd. E Talks with Old English Cricketers. By Old ibeor (Mr. A. ...

... ghost proves to be quite a up to the regulation pattern, with the peculiarity Athat he converses in rhyme, having indulged in poetry before making the acquaintance of Jack Ketch. The interview in the haunted room has the happiest results, for the benevolent ...