Thomas Woolner, R.A. By Amy Woolner. (Chapman and Hall,
net.)--Thomas Woolner the sculptor is remembered mainly as
one of the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in whose magazine the Gum he published his poem, " My Beautiful Lady." His " Moses," perched on a pinnacle of the Manchester Assize Courts where, like the top of Snowdon, it is seldom visible through the mists and exhalations, is typical of his work, which once enjoyed considerable popularity but attracts little attention nowadays. He loft the " P.R.B." and emigrated to Australia in 1652, and his correspondence with Dante Rossetti and other friends at thistime is interesting. Like many other amateur gold-seekers, Woolner found his labour ill rewarded and returned home to become a fashionable sculptor. He had many eminent friends, like Fronde, the Carlylee, and others, whose letters appear in this volume, but we like best the simple and womanly letters from Mrs. Alfred Tennyson, as she then
was, which reflect the happy home life and the little eocentriaities of the poet. Woolner gave Tennyson the stones on which the poet based " Enooh Arden " and " Aylmer's- Field."
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