CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Golden Sheaf: Poems contributed by Living Authors. Edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. (HonIston and Wright)—We are not told with what object this selection has been made, and as the poems are in no respect striking, as there is no link of unity or purpose between them, this volume itself does not supply the information. Some few of the pieces are better than the mass ; Miss Parkes contributes pleasant lines on the Campagna of Rome, and the poems which bear the names of Mr. Benjamin Gough, the Rev. Edward Dalton, and Mr. S. C. Hall have some merit. But the editor has done his work carelessly enough to admit phrases such as those who giveth," and rhymes such as '" suitable" and "beautiful." The introductory essay by Mr. E. J. Reed is only remarkable as proceeding from the Chief Constructor of the Navy. It shows, however, that building ships does not necessarily lead to building the lofty rhyme.
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