18 APRIL 1896, Page 25

Dainty Poems of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Kate A.

Wright. (Combridge, Birmingham.) — There are some very

pretty poems here. Sir Edwin Arnold, C.S.I., Mr. Norman Gale, Mr. Le Gallienne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Kingsley, Dr. G. Macdonald, Mr. William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord de Tabley, and Mr. Aubrey de Vere are among the writers laid under contribution. The greatest name of the century is absent, and Miss Wright's plan does not include the great poets of an earlier generation,—Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth. But the collection is choice and interesting.