4 MAY 1901, Page 25

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

Pinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as tars not been reserved for review in other eorms.)

• Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Queen Victoria. Edited by Charles F. Forshaw, LL.D. With a Foreword by Mackenzie Bell. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 3s. 6d.)—We cannot honestly say that Dr. Forshaw, with his sonnet of dedication, commends the volume that he has taken the pains to collect to the favourable notice of the public. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos are out of place, and what had "stern Mel pomene" to do with ordering the Fates ? But the collec- tion was worth making. Many of the pieces are but of poor quality, but there is an unmistakable note of personal feeling in them.