Mixon VEME.—Imperia, and other Prolusions in Verse. By Hugh Farrie.
(H. Young and Sons, Liverpool.)—Mr. Farrie's verse is above the average, especially in " The Happiest Lover," and some of his translations are ingenious. Here are the last two stanzas of an experiment in Alcaics (" Parens Deorum cultor et infrequens ") :- "Whereby earth's coasts and rivers barbarian, Whereby the glowing confines Tartarlan, And all the world's far distant spaces
Trembled. The proud from their lofty places The Lord can cast : he foils the vainglorious, He helps the meek ; Fate, ever victorious,
The palm which she from one may capture Gives to another with bitter rapture."
—Songs of Erinn. By P. J. McCall. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) —We are not told exactly what these " songs " are, Some are called "Historical Ballads," others "Translations from the Gaelic." What has Mr. McCall had to do with them ? There seems to be no small amount of good stuff in them. But we should like to know more of their origin.—Mr. Clifford King, who sends out Poems (Digby, Long, and Co., 68. net), has much to learn before he can profitably write verse. On p. 2 we see " Praxitelles " and " Cosian" for "Coen." Here is a sample of his quality. "Time," we read- " Beheaded Lady Grey ; Edward the Fifth ; Assassinated James the First ; the Fifth James, slain by grief ; decapitated Charles The First ; the second exiled Charles,"—&c., &c.
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