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The Poets' Praise : from Homer to Swinburne. Collected and

arranged, with notes, by Estelle Davenport Adams. (Elliot Stock.)—The "Poets' Praise" consists of two parts,—their praise of their own art, and their praise of particular poets. It is an interesting book, which might have been retrenched without material loss. Still it is not uninteresting to have some specimens of writers who were greatly admired within this century, but are now never read,—Hayley, for instance, Akenside, Beattie. The volume has been carefully put together; the notes give references to many passages which it has not been possible to set forth at length; altogether, Miss E. D. Adams is to be congratulated on the success with which, she has accomplished her task.