Anita. By Evarts Scudder. (Same publisher and price.)— A book
of poems with no very obvious faults. A monologue entitled, " Euripides at Salamis," opens with some effective lines.—Ten Sonnets. By G. H. Johnstone. (Same publisher. ls. 6d.)—Mr. Johnstone's sonnets have the air of having been written by a very young hand. In the first place, they aro derivative ; -in the second place, they display a great love of fine phrases, and lastly, they are occasionally bathetic. But if Mr. Johnstone has not yet produced good poetry, he is yet not impossibly a good poet. When he desires " To bear the pain of racking venom for the Egyptian's kiss," when ho filches imaginings of his mistress " gold-ringed with thought," or sees a vision of flying love that moves " too quickly for the vigilant snakes," we feel quite prepared to read his later works as soon as he has written them.
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