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Urban Grand/sr, And Other Poems. By Louis Brand. (chapman...

Hall.)—The chief poem in the volume is 21 melancholy and painful tale, not redeemed by any particular power or grace in the telling. Nor can we ace anything above mediocrity in......

From The 'thames To The Tamar. By The Rev. A.

G. L'Estrange. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. L'Estrange describes his book as "A Summer on the South Coast." As a matter of fact, for at least a con- si lerable part of his journey,......

Friendly Fairies ; Or, Once Upon A Time. (nimmo.)—" This

volume," says the editor, "is composed of adaptations of certain fairy tales from foreign sources which are scarcely so well known in England as they ought to be." We do not see......

The Dream And The Deed; And Other Poems. By Patrick

Scott. (H. S. King.)—The principal poem is a tale of which the chief inci- dent is one of those remarkable revelations which are known to have taken place in sleep of some......

Poetry.—the Masque Of The Gods. By Bayard Taylor....

Osgood and Co.; London, Trilbner.)—Mr. Bayard Taylor has taken a great subject, which in a poem of less than a thousand lines he can handle but superficially and partially. The......

Streams From Hidden Sources. By B. 31ontgomerie Ranking....

King.)—Mr. Ranking's volume has its value, but there is somewhat of rashness and dogmatism in the language with which he. introduces it to the reader. We must take leave to......