15 MAY 1897, Page 24

Longfellow's Poetical Works. (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)—This is an agreeable

edition. The type is good ; the paper might have been less pervious, for the printing on the next page is not abso- lutely concealed ; the binding is solid, but light. A brief biographical note gives the main facts of the poet's life, and there is a striking portrait by way of frontispiece, admirably repro- duced by " Lemerciergravure" from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry.