25 DECEMBER 1886, page 15

Books.

TENNYSON'S NEW POEMS.* IN writing last week on the most notable of these poems,— the sequel to " Locksley Hall,"—we said enough to show how fine a poem Tennyson has given us in......

Symonds's "catholic Reaction."*

Ix former volumes of this work, Mr. Symonds narrated the history of the rise and progress of the Italian Renaissance. In - the concluding volumes, he describes its assassination......