26 MARCH 1864, Page 21

The Poetry and Poets of Great Britain — Chaucer to Tennyson. By

Daniel Scrymgeour. (Adam and Charles Black.)—A volume of well- selected extracts. Perhaps another such a work was hardly needed, but Mr. Scrymgeour has done his work well, and the notes are excessively terse and to the point. Nor do we at all object to be introduced to some of the older Scotch poets, such as Douglas and Dunbar, of the fifteenth century ; but who is the Rev. James Grahame, of the eighteenth I The specimens given do not say much for him.