Farina Tales, Essays, and Poems. By the late Rev. Thos,
J. Corr. (Hogan Paul, Trench, and Co.) —We are not disposed to do much more than record the appearance of this volume. The editor says :—" My task has been more sacred than critical. I have endeavoured to give the author's work to the public as nearly as possible as he left it,"— and goes on to quote an opinion that "some of the compositions were written when the powers of body, and consequently of mind, were becoming weak." Though we cannot accept what is implied in this "consequently," we cannot help regretting that criticism was not called in for the purpose of selection. A smaller volume would have been in every way more acceptable. Mr. Corr was evidently a man of taste, culture, and feeling, and left babied him more than one thing which deserves to lire. It is a pity that the editor has allowed the first paper to be disfigured by a manifest lapsus pontos," Aliquid sperare impotens," instead of " Qaid/ibst impotens sperare." Aliquid makes nonsense of the quotation.
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