10 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 25

Poems, National and Non-Oriental ; with some New Pieces. Selected

from the Works of Sir Edwin Arnold. (Triibner.)—The preface of the volume runs thus :—" As it has been sometimes thought and said inaccurately that the author is exclusively devoted to Oriental subjects of verse, and as he may yet recur to these, he has here complied with a desire that a selection should be made from his non-Oriental poems." They cover a range of more than thirty years, from "Belshazzar," the poem which won the Newdigate, in 1833, to "Berlin—the Sixteenth of March," written on the occasion of the burial of the Emperor William. There are many readers to whom this very convenient selection will be welcome.