Edward Thring, Teacher and Poet. By H. D. Rawnsley. (T.
Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Rawnsley read part of this little volume as a paper before the Birmingham Association of School-Teachers, and has now published it at their request, adding a second part, which there was not then time to give. This second part deals with Mr. Thring's work as a poet. After this comes a memorial notice published in the Spectator on the Saturday following Mr. Thring's death ; and after this, again, a collection of memorial verses, under the title of " Sonnets Commemorative," which were written about the same time ; and of sonnets written when the Uppingham Tercentenary was celebrated, June 26th, 1884. Mr. Rawnsley was an old pupil of the great and good man, and draws his portrait, moral and mental, with both discrimination and sympathy.
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