The Best Poetry. Edited, with a Note, by T. W.
H. Crosland. (Treherne and Co. 2s. net.)—It is interesting to see what Mr. Crosland, who certainly must be credited with some critical power, takes to be the "best poetry." The poems, or sets of poems, included in this volume are Shakespeare's "Sonnets," Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner," Keats's "Eve of St. Agnes," Tennyson's "In Memoriam," Milton's " L'Allegro " and "fl Penseroso," Fitz- Gerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar Kluiyylim," Gray's "Elegy," and Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel." It will be seen that Spenser, Dryden, Pope, and Wordsworth are passed by. The difficulty is to be quite certain about the object of the collection. You would not give the same kind of nosegay to every one. We doubt about Shakespeare's sonnets. What is the proportion of readers that can appreciate them?
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