6 NOVEMBER 1886, page 37

Some Books Of Verse.*

Ma. MoitsE's songs have more delicacy than strength. Perhaps their most distinctive quality—and it is a quality claiming grateful recognition in these days of affected cynicism......

The Master Of The Ceremonies.• Surrosuca A Man Who Had

to run a race were to tie his legs together, don a strait-waistcoat, bandage his eyes, encumber himself with heavy clothing, or in any other way limit his freedom of action,......