5 APRIL 1890, Page 27

The Backslider, and other Poems. By " Anbmus." (Printed for

the Author, and sold by Elkin Matthews, Vigo Street.)—" Antzeus " has chosen a very unfortunate nom de plume. There is nothing at all like Antteus in these verses, which are so feeble after their con- tact with earth (and certainly they are earthy), that it passes our imagination to conceive anything so faint as they must have been before that contact.