21 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 25

Poems and Translations. By Henry Lowndes. (C. Kogan Paul and

Co.)—We are inclined to regret that these lines were not left to the columns of the respectable provincial papers in which they first appeared. Mr. Lowndes has some fluency of expres- sion, and writes verse with evident ease. He is at his best when describing nature, but he never rises to any real elevation of thought or style. "Fireside Musing," we may remark, is a curiously close recollection of Cowper's lines on seeing in the Annual Register some names of persons of little note.