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Mr. Stopford Brooke regarded the present revival of as the

third generation from the original Romantic re= The lectures which go to make up the present volume (Naturalism in English Poetry, J. M. Dent, 7s. 6d. net) were delivered in 1902, and his comment on the " new note " is therefore an instance of great sensitiveness to new impulses. Perhaps the most interesting study in the book is that of Byron's "Cain." It will send the reader straight to the original, which is too little known to the present generation. The book is written in a particularly agreeable style, and several passages of real beauty are to be found scattered about it.