Stars of Earth ; or Wild Flowers of the Months.
By Leigh Page. (Edinburgh : Johnstone, Hunter, and Co.)—A. pretty and pleasantly written book, which will serve as a companion in many country rambles ; and will invest meadows, woods, and hedgerows with new interest. Taking the months in their order, the author describes, depicts, and illustrates the wild flowers which each season claims for its own, and on which so many poets have dwelt with native or borrowed rapture. Among the poets quoted in this book a much larger space ought to have been allotted to Tennyson, whose love of nature is not only free from all straining and affection, but is shown by a perfection of art and a power of imagery in which no one else has approached him. This. remark is not misplaced, as the author of Stars of Earth quotes freely from other poets, and relies for an effect on their descriptions as much as on a careful enumeration of floral attributes.
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