28 APRIL 1883, Page 24

Rienzi : an .,Esthetic and Historical Poem. By T. Stanley

Rogers, B.A., LL.B. (Ponsonby, Dublin ; Pearce, Southport.)—" Among the most vicious effects of the modern crusade against those forms of faith and aspiration which have hitherto preserved in varying degrees of development the co-operation of individuality with society, may be observed an increasing tendency towards limitations of individuality by the intolerance of majorities," dm. When the reader has mastered ".The Argument," he will, perhaps, be sufficiently inflated with self- complacency to go on with the poem. It will not reward him.