Tableau from Geology, and Other Poems. By Matthew Brydie. (Hardwicke.)—The
leading " poem" in this volume is a kind of des- cription, in blank verse, of various stages in the process of Creation, and is introduced by a declaration that its author is "a follower and profound admirer of Dr. M'Causland's demonstration, on geological grounds, that Moses' account of the seven days of Creation is a divinely inspired narrative." This piece of information is hardly superfluous, for the only expression of opinion that we can gather from the poem itself is to the effect that the earth is the child of
"Time, with the boundless space Of this eternal universe combined Into a marriage most inscrutable."
The rest of the volume is made up chiefly of what Mr. Brydie calls , ." Sonnet Stanza Sketches," that is, pieces of various lengths and on .Tarious subjects, written in fourteen-line stanzas, and looking like so tk \many aggregates of sonnets. We regret to say that we cannot make vial:Loh of these productions. We must, however, call attention to a re- markable rhyme which occurs in one of these novelties, the subject o which is of an exceedingly sentimental nature. Mr. Brydie has actually had the courage to make "form" rhyme with o'er them." It is a pity that he did not dare a little further, and write the second rhyme as it must infallibly be pronounced—" o'er 'em."
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