30 MARCH 1867, Page 22

A Voice fi - om the Muses. By James Bird. (Simpkin, Marshall,

and 0o.)—The author dedicates his book to the working men of Bowling and Bradford, with a statement that front his sixth year he was com- pelled to toil for his bread in a factory. We are glad that he has emerged from such a life, and that he has been able to devote his tnaturer years to poetry. He writes with great correctness, and not without feeling.