POEMS OF PROBLEMS.* MRS. WILCOX'S new volume will certainly be
bailed with enthusiasm by a very large public. Some people will acclaim it with one kind of delight, some with another. We select the following fragments for quotation :— " Oh, there are many actors who can play Greatly, great parts; but rare indeed the soul Who can be great when cast for some small role. Yet that is what tha world most needs : big hearts That will shine forth and glorify poor parts."
"The deepest tragedies of life are not Put into books or acted on the stage."
"I said I would have my fling And do what a young man may; And I didn't believe a thing That the parsons have to say," very daring poem this.) The present writer has been
• Poems of Problems. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. London: Gay and Hancock. Gd. net.]
considerably puzzled by the zoology—or is it ornithology ?- of the following line :— " Those creatures which are part of God, though they have hoofs and wings."
It does not seem somehow to fit the Mock Turtle. Could the
answer be a pig ? And Mrs. Wilcox is usually so lucid. We seem to have seen "A Man's Ideal "— " A lovely little keeper of the home, Absorbed in menu books, yet erudite "- some long time ago. Yet we have not observed any word in the volume to indicate that some of the poems are reprinted.
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