4 JULY 1868, Page 21

Poems. By B. G. Homer. (Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.) The

Merican. By John M. Dagnall. (American News Company, New York.)—These are two volumes of verse by American writers, and are of much the same quality as hundreds of other volumes of home production of which reviewers probably see more than the public. Of Mr. Dagnall the Boston Transcript says :—" If any Englishman should contemptuously ask now, 'Who writes an American poem ?' we should triumphantly answer, 'John M. Dagnall.'" We cannot see anything more noticeable than the extraordinary vigour with which Mr. Dagnall expresses the oneness of a married pair,—

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From this hour,' he said, 'art man and wife.' "

Mr. Roemer writes like a man of culture and refinement, but fails to interest us.