20 MAY 1893, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Poems of the Hon. .Roden Noel. A Selection, with an Introduc- tion, by Robert Buchanan. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Noel's work shows to advantage in the selection which Mr. Buchanan has made from his poems, nor has he any reason to complain of the appreciation given in the introduction. If we cannot go to quite the length of admiration that we find here expressed, we still acknowledge that Mr. Buchanan has distinguished with much felicity the special merits of Mr. Noel's verse. This is a volume —one of the series of the "Canterbury Poets "—which no one Who would make his collection of modern English verse complete should be without.