The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by William
B. Scott. (George Routledge and Sons.)—This is a charming little pocket volume, containing an edition, not, indeed, as it pro- fesses to be, of "the poetical works" of Coleridge, for it contains no play, and does not contain the splendid translation of Schiller's play, but of all the minor poems, including "The Ancient Mariner," " Christabel," " Kale Khan," "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter," and the "Odes." But, considering the unequalled beauty of the principal poems contained here, nothing astonishes one more than the large proportion of dreary trash contained especially in the juvenile poems. Nevertheless, it is a charming little volume. Though one half of it at least is hardly readable, the other half is poetry of the highest type. Type and paper are everything that could be desired.
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