19 FEBRUARY 1898, Page 24

Carmen Deo Nostro. Sacred Poems by Richard Crashaw. Edited by

J. Tutin. (W. Andrews and Co.)—Crashaw was metrically one of the most accomplished of English poets, but curiously enough his religious verse does not show him at his best as a poet. He is too apt to be run away with by his love of conceits. His secular lyrical verse has a swifter movement, and left him, apparently, leas time for over-elaboration.