4 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 20

Eden, and Other Poems. By Alfred Dixon Toovey. (Longman and

Co.)—" Modern Life," the longest of these poems, was written by the author in boyhood, and having been some years out of print is now re- written and republished. It is certainly a work of very considerable promise, though scarcely deserving the high praise which the late Mr. Rogers is stated to have bestowed on it. The author's -later writings seem to ns to be in no way equal to it. " Eden " is a rather vapid metrical paraphrase of the beginning of Genesis.