Visions in Verse; or, Dreams of Creation and Redemption. (Trfibner
and- Co.)—It is certainly a thoroughly American idea to treat the problem involved in the existence of sin in a volume of octosyllabic metre, which in its form recalls that of " Hndibras." There is, however, neither wit nor attempt at wit in the treatment of the subject of "our book, which also attempts to snatch spiritual glimpses of the great Drama of Christian Redemption in the past and future development of Man, and Earth his habitation, together with Angel ministries in human affairs." This extraordinary scheme is carried out in fourteen parts, with that curious familiarity in talking of divine things which is so like and yet is not irreverence. The account of the creation of Adam we cannot venture to quote, but the twelfth part contains a long argu- ment between a good angel. and the Devil, in which the latter contends that he is the victor in his contest with Heaven. He had, however, con- tracted it seems a most horrible squint, and when at last the angel got him to loak at "the light" he was utterly vanquished,—
" Bedazzled like a blinking ow], He uttered a terrific howl, Smitten with pain and rage, and flew Till darkness hid him from the view."
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