MR. PAYNE'S POEMS. [To TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In
the review of my "New Poems" contained in your last number, after noticing the two poems of " SaIvestra" and " Thorgerda," that fill 155 pp. of the book, you state that the remainder of the volume is "made up of ballads," virelays ' Rondeanx Redoubl6s," RondeLs,' and so forth," thereby giving your readers to suppose that the book is mainly com- posed of imitations of the old French metrical forms. As this is not the case, I shall be glad if you will allow me to correct your statement, by saying that the volume comprises, in ad- dition to the two long poems cited, two other poems of some length, viz., "Light o' Love" (39 pp.), and "Isabel" (21 pp.), and twenty-three shorter poems (in all 52 pp.), besides the ballads and other poems after the old French forms, which latter, farfrom constituting the bulk of the volume (as implied by you), occupy but twenty-nine pages in all, or rather less than one-tenth part
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