A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth. With Illus-
trations by Alfred Parsons. (Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)—We have here nearly ninety sonnets, beginning with two in which the poet aiiologises for the limitations of the sonnet form. " Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room," and " Scorn not the Sonnet, Critic, you have crowned." Some of the " Sonnets Written in Very Early Youth" follow. Among the others may be mentioned the famous " They dreamt not of a perishable home, who thus could build" (not accompanied, however, by a picture of King's College Chapel) ; "The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said," illus- trated by a fine landscape with a rising moon ; "In sight of the Town of Cockermouth," with a very carefully worked view from the sea; and " While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport, Shall live the name of Walton, sago benign !" with a very pretty river scene. The illustrations are executed in the well-known American style of engraving.
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