25 MARCH 1865, Page 21

After - Business Jottings. Poems by R. R. Bealey. (Simpkin, Marshall, and

Co.)—There is much lender feeling in these verses, especially in those which are addressed to children, and they are always polished and unaffected. Some of the poems in the Lancashire dialect, which have a dash of humour, seem to us, however, to have more vigott

"They're weel off ut con wark for their livin'; It's better t' be healthy nor rich ; Though gowd is a thing aw believe in, Aw don't think it's weel t' ha too mich.

"A mon wi' a bank in his pocket Sees boggarts wherever he goes, An his heart welly jumps eawt o' th' socket If nobbnt a chap blows his nose."