26 JANUARY 1867, page 18

The New Paradise Lost And Regained.* Mr. Bickersteth Is, We

believe, an excellent parish priest, pious, laborious, and conscientious, but he is not a second Milton, and none but a poet greater than Milton would be justified in choos- ing......

A Winter Among The Swallows.* If Any One Would Weigh

a hollow and ambitious book against one full of matter and beauty, let him wade through Lady Her- bert's pretentious volume on Spain, and then let him read Miss Edwards' Winter......