1 MARCH 1890, Page 25

Ballads, Lyrics, and Sonnets from the Works of Henry Wadsworth

_Longfellow (Macmillan and Co.), is a very pretty little volume. Some scores of poems may be chosen out of Longfellow which, without being exactly great, are as pleasing in their way as any- thing in the language, and the choice of this volume seems to -have been well made. There are some eighty in all, and all the favourites—and few poets have written so many favourites—are among them.—In "Rontledge's Pocket Library" we have Ancient Spanish Ballads, translated by J. G. Lockhart (Rout- ledge). A few editorial words might have been added. It is not every one that knows who Lockhart was.