26 DECEMBER 1868, Page 24

The Poets of the Nineteenth Century, selected and edited by

the Rev. Robert Aris Wilmott (Warne), appears in a new edition, with a par- ticularly tasteful binding. Such a selection must always be a matter in which opinion differs very widely ; when an editor has to deal with modern poets, the matter is, we presume, additionally complicated by the consideration of copyright. It is thus that we should account for Hannah More, Bowles, and James Montgomery occupying more space than Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and for the name of Matthew Arnold not appearing at all. The illustrations seem very good.