Lilian Gray. A Poem. By Cecil Home. (Smith, Elder, and
Co.).— A poem which bears the same relation to Tennyson's English idylls that the "Bridal of Triermain " boars to the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." It is what " Trierrnain " was thought to be when published, a.goed imitation of the master's style. The story is of Margaret, a girl in the upper class of society, who finds that her lover has previously engaged himself to Lilian Gray, a good, pretty little thing, socially his inferior—has quarrelled with her—and that she is dying of consumption and love. Margaret surrenders her rather contemptible adorer to his first love—a little against his will—and reconciles his mother to the match. The characters are well drawn, quite without exagge- ration—the feeling of the poetry is very tender, and the diction graceful, without any aiming at the production of "jewels five- words long." Cecil Home ought to have many readers, and they will certainly be admirers
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