24 JUNE 1893, Page 13

• The Great Poets' Birthday Album. With Preface by Violet

Hunt. (Eyre and Spoitiswoode )—We have to add "out of copyright," to make the selection of the twelve intelligible. Else why Mrs. Hemans and not Lord Tennyson P Even then, why no Shelley However, the Birthday Album is good enough in its way. Any one who possesses it will have some very good verse, though some may be of moderate quality. The plan is to allot a month to a poet, and to give the poet's portrait.