— Verses Wise Or Otherwise. By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler....
Co.) —There is a freshness and brightness about these poems which will at once attract the reader. Of melancholy rhymers we have enough and more than enough ; but a singer who......
Porray.—lettiore Plectro. (occasional Verses.) By Alfred...
humour has in a great degree changed its favourite mode of expression. There are two or three exceptions, which will probably occur to every one, but for the most part it is......
— Poems And Sonnets. By F. Reginald Statham. (t. Fisher...
Statham writes, it would seem, with ease, but scarcely with sufficient care. " The lode-star of an empire's smile," for instance, is scarcely an expression which would have......
How About The " I " In Pervenitur P —
The Palace of De- lights, and other Poems. By Henry Osborne, M.A. (Digby and Long.) — Allegories are always bard reading, but an allegory that is a " fragment " is surely......
— Mother And Daughter. By Augusta Webster. (macmillan And...
by whose death we lost one of the few genuine poetesses of the day, left at her death an unfinished set of sonnets. The tale of them is not complete, and some of them, we might......
— In Unknown Seas. By George Horton. (cambridge...
of beauties and singers, as Mr. Horton draws them in his verso, have Some merit, but of substance rather than of form. How could a cultivated writer allow the strange rhyme......
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