... POETRY AND VERSE a L & John- eYitg; well'kiow-n in GlasgeE As | j the author of o Lays fom the Fqorhbuse, P r ladys from the auele Nook, Horney Pie-c tars in Vese, and other collections, ha ju-f. issued another ittle volume, entitled Pictures e in ...

... GAIELIC POETRY, bi ARI'lAGE OF T1TE MARQUIS OF LORNE AND THE I'RINCESii LOUISE, Loversv of Gaelic poetry will read with interest tbe following very spirited Epitbalaminm on the marria','e of the Matqluis of Lorne and the Prin- ce~s Louihe, composed by ...

... POET'RY AIND YERSR. g -I The views expressed by verse makers of the i poet and his wcrk are often carious enough. t From a group of small books now before us we select a few illustrations. In a volume with the name of 'Dorica (Kegan Paul & Co.), by ...

... ITEE LOST POETRY OF AYRSHUIRE.; There is no dearth of poetry written in Ayr- 1 I abire or about it. The pre-eminence of Burns | has made that county rank as the favourite abode of Scottish song, and its poets of less renown are neither few nor unhonoured ...

... TnE GENIUrS I . OF CELTIC POETRY. j Aat n2igbt, nuder tke auspicee of tie ScettlSh Society of Literature avsi Art, Professor Knno I Meyer, of Upiversity College, Liverpool, delivered 'a lecture on the Geinis af Csltic Poetry., e Professor P. A. Simpse5 ...

... The novel, instead of being a kind of spoilt poetry, which merely did in a feeble way what poetry did in a much higherway, performed a function-wbich was, indeed, analagous to that of poetry, but-whiclx poetry itself could not fulfil. If this view was accepted ...

... all ferms of poetry, art tragedy best illustrated the familiar truth he was tryirg to enforce, that poetry was an interpretation of life, and rested on -life. This was one reason why an affinity had always been recognised between poetry on toe one hand ...

... s of awe-inspiring tendency it WS3 but the most natural thing in the world that the poetry of the Celts should have less of the .bumorous than is found in the poetry of peoples livingrin more southern and more genial climts. ; Admitting all this, however ...

... the direct line of poetic tradition, as standing apart in 3 still back. water, Bsit were, from thegreatstream of ournational poetry-as being without parent and without off- spring. Wbatever may bo the truthas to the former point-and we readily adnitthat ...

... Lyrics, read a paper on the poetry of Mr Ruskin. h It was always interesting, Mr Bird said, to traes fi the early signs of the peculiar genius for which a in great man had become distinguished. Mr Ruskin gi wrote poetry from childhood, and only gave ...

... )Itwas nt to e woneredtheui, that his poetry ini should held i high stlinaion bythe rural population, %vi and ll te wokingclases i allparts of the country, ca and tat le shold hve awkeutd intheir ininds a love of in poetry and of song, and of sterling nainlfeelin ...

... MISC ELLA NE 0 US. A Few TFords on Poets and Poetry.-In none of the Italians do we find the grand march, the sustained majesty. of the Greeks and the Romans. I cannot help thinking that Bo eaccio had more poetry in his nature than most of his brethren; and ...