19 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 24

English Metre. By J. B. Mayor, M.A. (C. J. Clay

and Son.)— Professor Mayor has treated with characteristic learning and ex- haustiveness a very difficult subject. To redoes to an accurate [system of scansion verse that is founded on accent is a moat laborious task. Any reader who will carefully follow Professor Mayor's most careful analysis—and we warn him that this is not &telly or speedily done—will find his trouble amply repaid.