7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 21

Poems. By Bramantip Camenes. (A. W. Bennett.)—Not actually pad, but

a very close imitation of bad verse, and puzzling from this very closeness. It is often a toss-up whether the lines have a meaning or not, whether that meaning is expressed or not, and whether, if there is a meaning and it is expressed, the lines are poetry or not. We are in- clined to think that they might be poetry, if half of them were left out and the other half rewritten.