12 OCTOBER 1889, Page 45

Fifty Sonnets. By C. E. Tyner. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—We

look, we confess, somewhat askance on a writer who gives us in a lump fifty sonnets. They are few who can write sonnets, a truth which is sometimes painfully apparent in Mr. Tyner's productions. The thought in a sonnet should be perfectly expressed, and not diffused, and otherwise ill-treated. The fiftieth Emmet is the only one which gives us any pleasurable feeling.