12 DECEMBER 1885, page 15

Boors.

THE POET LAUREATE'S NEW POEMS.• THE Poet Laureate is always at his best when he writes under the restraint of some classical or other self-imposed rule of speech which condenses......

Isis And Thamesis.* To The Lover Of The Thames This

will be a very pleasant book, though only anglers perhaps will enjoy it thoroughly, for in these pages the zeal of the angler has flamed higher even, we think, than the zeal of......

Norwegian Pictures.*

Timm is much to be said for the appearance just now of an illustrated book on Norway. It is surprising, when one considers the plenitude of recent works on the country, that so......