Of the Echoes of Foreign Song, by the Author of
"A Month in the Camp before Sebastopol" (Longman), and German Gems in an English Setting, by Jane Malley (Hermann Bohlen, Weimar), a brief notice may suffice. Many of the poems in the former volume are of the sprightly, half-comic type. Others, again, such as the "Hellenic War- Song," from Wilhelm Muller, and the "Prayer during Battle," from Korner, are of a different stamp. Some of the spirit and fire of the original is still preserved in the translations. "A Farewell," from Seidl, is not unsuccessfully rendered. Of the German Gems it is difficult to say much, either in praise or blame. The verse 110V78 smoothly, but the reader is never spirited away into any fairy realm, into any region above the common levels. In " Sintram's Song," the refrain which ends each verse, "Ei du Land mit den schonen
Blamen 1" is inaccurately rendered, " thou Land of the sunny South !"
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