21 JANUARY 1905, Page 21

Otia : Poems, Essays, and Reviews. By Armine Thomas Kent.

Edited by Harold Hodge. With Memoir by A. A. Baumann. (J. Lane. Se. net.)-Mr. Hodge has published here some thirty essays, mostly from the Saturday Review, and about twenty poems written between 1881 and the author's lamented death in 1903. Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very little to be desired (p. 194).