12 OCTOBER 1889, Page 43

Disillusion, and other Poems. By Ethel M. de Fonblanque. (T.

Fisher lJnwin.)—" Disillusion" and the other poems in this volume are of a strongly sentimental character. The writer ex- presses with considerable ease the ordinary feelings of lovers, whether happy or disillusioned, fretful or intoxicated. In one or two pieces only does Ethel Ponblanque rise above the monotonous flow of love-poetry. "Last Night" is better than usual, and so is "A Child's Message" and "Mater Consolatrix," and perhaps the two pieces at the end of the volume.