7 MAY 1904, Page 23

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wank as ha vs not been reserved for review in other forms.] Corn-Law Rhymes, and other Verses. By Ebenezer Elliott. (T. Fisher Unwin. 2d.)—To reprint these vigorous verses in a very cheap edition was obviously the right thing to do. As we see them now they have a sulphurous look;—the poem " Reform" may be instanced. But it is well to see how fierce was the passion roused by the fiscal system which was swept away in the two decades that followed 1830. Very few of the politicians remember these, times. The volcano is grown over with grass and flowers, but the fires are not extinct.