16 FEBRUARY 1889, Page 27

Poems of Wild Life. Selected and edited by Charles G.

D. Roberts. (Walter Scott.)—This addition to "The Canterbury Poets " is especially notable for the fact that scarcely a single English writer of distinction, with the exception of the late Mr. R. H. Home, is quoted in it. The poets from whose works Mr. Roberts makes most of his selections are, like Mr. Joaquin Miller, who is facile princeps among them, American by birth or upbring- ing, Mr. Roberts himself being a Canadian. The editing of this little volume has been executed with enthusiasm and yet also with care. There is, as was to be expected, much stirring poetry in it, but commendably little that is overstrained or turgid.