POETRY.—Miscellaneous Verses, by Georgiaua Ferrer. (S. W.

Partridge.)—Miss Farrer writes some six or seven thousand verses, to which we can really allow no higher merit than that of good inten- tion. Not the strongest sympathy with her general sentiments can make such verses as the following on " Vivisection " tolerable :—

'Darwin believes man but a beast, Sprung from a lowly root ; Superior to frogs and apes, A highly cultured shout.

Forerunners of a higher race, But not what Scripture states, Possessed with an immortal soul, On minds, like his, it grates.

A sort of eminence there is To feel above a To think a reptile or a ash Beneath our dignify."

--Theodora, and other Poems. By George F. E. Scott. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Scott must excuse us, if we remind hint that if emperors are "super grammaticara " poets are not. In,—

" 0 man, who in thy wondrous wisdom, In very littleness doth limit

God's love with thine—who madly scorneth,"

"who" is in the second person, and requires " dost " and "scornest." We cannot honestly say that verses of the quality of which we give a sample—and, as it seems to us, a fair sample—are worth publish- ing, whether they are written in extreme youth or extreme old age :—

" DREAMS.

They told me that I did but dream,'

I heard an old man say, 'And that the world's realities Aline energies should sway.

The world's realities I found Realities of woe;

Ah ! would that I could dream again

The dreams of long ago.'"

--Poems and Ballads. By Pryco Gwynne. There is a good deal more sound than sense in such verses as the following :—

" SONG TO PSTCUE.

"Go, weary sprite, outspeed the night, And seek the land of dreams, Whose cloudy light is lost the sight Be blinded by its streams, That wash the walls of magic halls, Whose forms for ever change;

Though each enthrals the glance that falls, Upon its fabric strange."