15 JUNE 1889, Page 24

Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist. With Biographical Intro- duction

by Charles Kent. (Frederick Warne.)—Mr. Kent's intro-

duction, sympathetic on the whole, does justice in blame as well as in praise. . The extracts, in [poetry and prose, give a very good idea of Leigh Hunt's genius. His essays are:scarcely recognised as they should be. That they are equal to "Ella" no one would maintain ; but the disproportion between the number of readers of the two authors is greater than the interval between them warrants.