27 OCTOBER 1888, Page 22

Thoughts and Fancies for Sunday Evenings. By Walter C. Smith.

(James Maclehose and Sons.)—Mr. Smith is well known to the public as a poet. His poem entitled " Hilda " has stamped him as a writer possessed of great power and thought, as well as a remarkable grace of expression. The present volume contains a collection of short poems on various texts, one for every Sunday in the year. All of them are noticeable for the thought and piety which they show, while some are really beautiful. We hope, however, before long to see something which is more worthy of the promise which Mr. Smith's former works held out. It is not that we wish to find fault with the book before us. In its way it is excellent. But we know that Mr. Smith can do better.