8 DECEMBER 1883, Page 19

Choice Poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated from Paintings by

his Son, Ernest W. Longfellow. (Cassell and Co.) —Here we have twenty poems, illustrated by more than twice as many engravings. The poems are, for the most part, familiar. Indeed, it was impossible to avoid the old favourites ; still, on the whole, the selection displays the genius of the poet with a certain novelty of aspect. The frontispiece is a likeness of the poet, and more pleas- ing than any that we remember to have seen before, though it pre- serves at the same time the poetic nobility of the head and counten- ance. Of the other illustrations we cannot say much more than that they are agreeable specimens both of the draughtsman's and the engraver's art.