mans.)—Songs in the Night, and other Poems. (Burns and Oates.)—We
have ventured to put these three volumes together because they have very much in common, and their " differentiation " would be a work of difficulty. They all exhibit a certain power of easy versification and a level of cultured attainment which, although not a very high one, seems to promise that Heaven may give more,if the men be but thankfal. Mr.
Norris's volume is certainly the most generally readable, and shows
more colour " and vigour and a wider and healthier range of senti- ment. If we had room, we would quote his "Rain-Pictures," which IS
as good as anything we have found in these books. Both the other versifiers are Roman Catholics, and a tone of mysticism and an air of abstraction characterise them. If we attempted to give quotations, we should hardly know where to begin or to stop; we have here nearly
three hundred "copies of verses" to choose from, and more than one of the writers have more to come. It is well, therefore, to keep strict guard over our space.
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