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The Palace of De- lights, and other Poems. By Henry Osborne, M.A. (Digby and Long.) — Allegories are always bard reading, but an allegory that is a " fragment " is surely something that ought not to be imposed on the public. We can guess what is intended by Carnac, Eunoe, Eusbac, and Sciolac, though the form of the names is very odd, but why they all, for surely Eusbac means" piety," should drink the deadly goblet at the bidding of the Queen of the Palace, and be driven out by" armed masters, fierce, implacable." and what happened to them afterwards, we cannot guess. — The Withered Joster, and other Poems. By Arthur Patchett Martin. (J. M. Dant and Co.)—" The 'Withered Jester" (admirably portrayed, by the way, on the title-page by Mr. Phil May) reminds us, perhaps a little too strongly, of the "Vision of Sin." It is not the best specimen of Mr. Martin's verse. We prefer "The Agnostic's Apology," and, of the humorous kind, in which Mr. Martin is at least as happy as in the serious, "My Cousin from Pall Mall." These are too long to quote, but here is a fair sample of Mr. Martin's verse :-- "For her the smile, and for him the tear, Brother and Sister on Life's wild way I For be was the Child of December drear
And she the babe of the blithesome May !
Be dark and grim as the stormfal sea, She bright and fair as the blushing dawn: Be like a gnarled and leafless tree, She with the grace of the flying fawn.
The Child of grief, and the babe of joy,
They grew together, yet wide apart; Th. lightsome girl, and the gloomy boy,
Unlike in feature, in mind and heart.
For the thorn was his, and hers the rose, He was as night, and she as the day ; He was rocked to the blast of December snows, And she in the bowers of flow'ry May ! "
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