Poems. By Thomas Chatterton. With a Memoir by F. Martin.
Il- lustrated. (C. Griffin and Co.)—The publisher of this volume seems to have had by him a number of not unpleasing engravings, and to have thought that they might as well be used for illustrating poor Chatter- ton's somewhat vapid and indefinite minor poems as for any other pur- pose. There is no objection to the scheme, and the result is a pleasant- looking volume, which will serve for a Christmas present as well as the average gift-books of the season. Mr. Martin opens with an elaborate memoir, which is interesting enough, and seems to have been dictated by a real regard for the subject of it ; the painful story is minutely told, and due justice is done upon the unlucky Walpole, who, like the traitor Lundy in Derry, is always brought up for punishment on these occasions. We must do justice, in conclusion, to the type and binding, which are attractive.
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