1 JUNE 1867, Page 22

Poems : including Tales, Ballads, and Songs. By Robert White.

(Kelso, Rutherford; London, Longmans.) — Mr. White's poems de- serve a kindly word of encouragement. They are natural and unpre- tending, and though not calculated to command the suffrages of a large public, eminently fitted for a small native circle. The two longer tales with which the volume opens are by no means wanting in merit, even if the novelty of the first is forestalled by Scott, and that of the second by Burns's "Tam O'Shanter." Some of the pieces which follow, and which are destitute of that reflected spirit, are more genuine, as being Mr. White's own utterances, and are pleasing in their simplicity.