The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. Edited by
Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co.)—This is the completing volume of Mr. Miles's scheme as it was originally planned out—" The Poets of the Century, from George Crabbe to Rudyard Kipling." Seven previous volumes contained extracts from one hundred and fifty- one poets. The volume now before us gives us forty-four more, besides mentioning thirty other names. And among the forty- four are F. W. H. Myers, E. Myers, E. Dowden, R. Bridges, Andrew Lang, E. Gosee, W. C. Henley, Michael Field, Norman Gale, and William Watson. Verily, the race is inexhaustible. But even so, we have not done with the poets. Two more volumes and an appendix are to come, with one hundred and forty more, "and other writers." (" Ac etiam," by the way, is not good Latin ; "atque" always before a vowel.)—With this volume may be mentioned another, with a kindred though less ambitious purpose, The Harp of Perthshire. Edited by Robert Ford. (Alex. Gardner.)—How many Perthshire poets does the reader suppose there to have been P One hundred, lacking five ! And this from a single county of Scotland. The mind positively reels under the calculation of how many bards there are in the United Kingdom ! And now the Colonies and India are hard at work rhyming. In this particular volume will be found not a few interesting pieces.
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