28 AUGUST 1897, Page 25

English Sonnets. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by A. T.

Quiller-Couch. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Quiller-Couch gives us in this very neat little volume some two hundred sonnets, from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Mrs. Barrett Browning. The old favourites are here, and with them some which the author has rescued from an undeserved neglect. The introduction is an exposition of the laws and form of the sonnet, a subject on which Mr. Quiller- Couch expresses his dissent from Mark Pattison's purism. Pattison would not allow Shakespeare's sonnets to be the real thing.