4 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 20

The Voices of the Year; or, the Poet's Kalendar. Illustrated.

(Charles Griffin and Co.)—This fine volume is a New Year's gift-book come a little late, but none the less welcome on that account. The binding is magnificent, paper and type unexceptionable, and the wood-cuts very good specimens of that rather conventional style of pourtraying rural life which in poetry is called pastoral. The matter of the work con- sists of a complete collection of English poetry descriptive of the natural scenery and agriculture of our country arranged calendar-

fashion in months. Each quarter is of course headed by one of Thomson's Seasons, and old Tusser's excellent advice on husbandry is never forgotten. Admirers of our pastoral poetry will find here grati- fication both for the mind and eye.