The Poets and Poetry of the Century : Sacred, Moral,
and Religious Verse. Edited by Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co.)—This is the tenth and last volume of a valuable and interesting series. It begins with James Montgomery, 1771-1854 (the authors are arranged according to date of birth), and ends, to speak only of deceased poets, with Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879. We are sorry that "For Ever with the Lord" is not among the selected hymns of James Montgomery. The four lines- " Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam.
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home,"
constitute a sufficient claim. On the whole, however, we have no fault to find with the editor's principles or practice of selection. There is a supplementary selection, entitled " Ac Etiam " (surely it should be " atque etism ; " ac does not come before a vowel), in which some sixty authors are represented by one or more specimens, and an appendix, with still more gleanings from scores of writers of verse.
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