27 APRIL 1867, Page 21

Legends of a State Prison, or Visions of the Tower.

By Patrick Scott. (Bentley.)—Mr. Scott writes fluently and sometimes gracefully, his thoughts are often far above the average of modern verse, and he has gone thoroughly into his very interesting subject. But when we have said all this, we have not shown much cause for ranking his volume high in the poetical world, and we are afraid that we cannot add to that sentence.