22 FEBRUARY 1902, Page 27

Foscari," "Cain," "Heaven and Earth," "Werner," "The De- formed Transformed,"

and" The Island." Mr. Coleridge thinks that these find few readers nowadays. Probably he is right. Whether this should be is another matter. Might we not say that in literature nothing bad continues to live, and nothing good dies, if only it has had its chance? However this may be, full justice is being done to the poet in this very complete and careful edition.