MISS TWAMLEY'S POEMS.
THIS volume is the production of an elegant and accomplished pun lady, who has acquired, for her years, no mean proficiency in three arts,—poetry, painting, and engraving. When it is stated that time poems were mostly esmposed befire the author had reached nineteen, the reader will not look fur much originality of sentiment, imagery, or character. It will be enough if he find all he has a right even to exact,—competent skill in versification, an ear well attuned to harmony, a tasteful use of the public stock of poetical materials, and a spiritual instead of a mechanical imita- tion of those bards with whom the fair tyro has been most con- versant. All these qualities are in Miss TWAMLEY'S Poems; with the addition of that delicate and relined feeling which is cha- racteristic of woman.
The fair poetess handles the pencil as gracefully as she touches the lyre. Her floral designs are very tasteful ; and her etchings of the ruins of Kenilworth and Tintern show that she has a feel- ing for the picturesque. They are executed, too, with artist-like skill and neatness.
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