12 OCTOBER 1889, Page 45

Virginia, and other Poems. By A. F. Cross. (Swan Sonnenschein.)

—The poem which gives its name to the book, a lover's story, is a vigorous and very real one, and well expresses that sort of hostility to anything and everything common to the race of lovers. It is full of the jealous spirit and the rapid alternations of love and despair of a man who sees the probably more than prosaic finish to his courtship. " Habet" is a very pleasant little sketch of a fisher- monk's triumph. Mr. Cross shows some skill in narrative in this, and also in the cheerful sketch, " The Bowling-Green."