27 APRIL 1867, Page 21

A Tale of Ludlow Castle. By the Rev. W. W.

Skeet, M.A. (Boll and Daldy.)—A ballad poem in the style of Scott, and written with much of Scott's spirit. In one instance, too, a lino of Scott's has slipped into Mr. Skeat's narrative :—

"Hurled to the ground rolled man and horse."

If Mr. Skeat will tarn to the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," where the meeting between Lord Cranstonn and William of Deloraine is described —we think it is the second canto—he will find that he has been fore- stalled by the great magician. Yet we do not wish Mr. Skeat to alter his line. The coincidence merely shows that he has studied Scott with the zeal of an admirer, and has unconsciously reproduced one of the turns of expression which he was trying to emulate.