Victor Hugo and use Poetry. By W. H. Hudson. (Harrep.
Is. 6d. net.)—This. admirable little book contains about fifty choice pieces fairly representing the best- of Victor Hugo's _poetry, with a connecting commentary, biographical and critical. The great Frenchman published such a mass of verse of varying quality that his genius shines out more brightly in a judicious selection, and we can imagine no better introduction to the study of Victor Hugo than the late Professor Hudson -provided. It is most interesting to trace his development through a long life as reflected in some of his finest poems, down to that charming work of his old age, "Georges et Jeanne," from L'Art d'être Grand-pers. There would, we have often felt, be a far larger English audience for the French poets if the elementary rules of French versification were taught in our schools.
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