25 JUNE 1864, Page 22

Effie Campbell and Other Poems. By Joseph Freeman. (Longman

and Co.)—These verses are of a more intellectual cast than Mr. Askham's, and are fairly entitled to the same sort of praise in respect of their general tone, but there is nothing in them very original. Some- times an old thought is well put :— "Love that once pined blindly, Tenderly reveres, And the eyes are clearer That have looked through tears."