3 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 23

Songs and Rhymes, English and French. By Walter Herries Pollock.

(Remington.)—There is much grace in some of these verses, but also not as much substance as there ought to be in verses that are to take hold of the mind, except in the rare cases where the perfection of form is so remarkable that the substance hardly matters. Mr. Pollock's verses are graceful, but not graceful up to this point,— graceful rather with the grace of a mind that can feel beauty keenly itself, but can hardly make others feel it adequately. The French poems show,a remarkable command of French turns of thought and expression.