4 AUGUST 1894, Page 26

Many readers will welcome Selections from the Poems of Arthur

Hugh Clough. (Macmillan.)—Those who admired the poet most, must have often wished that, as Matthew Arnold puts it, he would" cut a smoother reed," Here we have him at his smoothest. Rather more than half the volume is given to "The Botlaie of Tober-na-Vuolich," There are a few early poems. The other selections are chiefly from " Dipsychrie," and "Amours de Voyage."