24 JUNE 1893, Page 12

Under the Evening Lamp. By Richard Henry Stoddard. (Gay and

Bird.)—Mr. Stoddart writes on a number of poets of the minor order. James Hogg, Bloomfield, Clare, Ebenezer Elliott, T. L. Beddoes, Thomas Love Peacock, and R. Monckton Milnes are among the best known of them. He always writes pleasantly and appreciatively, and he gives us some interesting sketches of men who have somewhat dropped out of memory, and yet are worth remembering. We note a curious error in the paper on "The Early Life of Gifford." "He was promised the place of Biblical Reader at Exeter College, Oxford." "Biblical Reader" will rather puzzle academical readers of the younger generation. It should have been, of course," "Bible Clerk;" even Bible clerks have, we believe, been improved off the face of the earth.