RECREATIONS IN RHYME
Is a collection of average verses, in many metres, on many suds jects. The author is alternately serious and gay, grave and face- tious, with occasional trials at philosophic moralizing, and frequent descents to burlesque. He is happier in comic than in tragic matters, but i not very striking even in his best vein. The source of his inspiration we cannot tell, unless it were his list of subscribers. The point of wonder connected with the book is, that the writer was turned of forty before he began to write; and then the afflatus came upon him with such power, that the present volume was produced "iii about four months." There have in- deed been instances of men whose genius has lain dormant till late in life, when it burst forth to astonish the wold; but, judging from the sample before us, this will not be the fate of the Cornubian.
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