1 FEBRUARY 1890, page 17

The Rev. Alfred Gurney's Poems.* Too Saccharine, Is Our...

judgment on these poems. There is a gleam of real poetry in the small volume, but the gleam is bathed in too much sweetness. There is too much popular preacher about the verses,......

Books.

TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES.* THERE are some nominally sporting books which may be read with both pleasure and profit, although as a class the records of sport are repulsive reading......