13 MARCH 1926, Page 22

A• portrait of " the most amiable and beautiful person

that ever I beheld "—as a contemporary wrote of - the author of " To Lucasta on Going to the Wars," adorns the frontispiece of Mr. Wilkinson's very beautiful edition of the Poems of Richard Lovelace (Clarendon Press. 105s. net).. There is little of Don Juan in the Milk-faced youth, in cap and gown, who meets our gaze with the round eyes of innocence, but a later illustration of Colonel Richard Lovelace, debonnair in silk and • steel,' shows us the beait -sdbreur lie later became'. We cordially commend these delightful VoluMes-. -• - a- * * • *- : • • -• 7; .