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spersed here and there with bright sayings in prose for which Mr. O'Reilly was so justly noted. Conway has shown great taste in the selections made, and the work must be eagerly sought for by admirers of the dead poet.

CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS A. Songs of the Catholic Year. Boston: Flynn & Mahony. c. 1890. 8vo, cl., pp. 62.

A collection of poems commemorative of the various fast or feast days of the Roman Catholic Church.

FAWCETT, EDGAR. Songs of Doubt and Dream. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1891. 8vo, cl., gilt top, pp. 311, $2. If this volume is read by those of an analytical mind, they will find plenty of food for moralizing upon. The work is philosophical in character and deals with many of the existing evils of our present society; yet so adroitly has Mr. Fawcett placed the moral before the public that it is only upon second thought that it asserts itself.

GUNSAULUS, FRANK W. McClurg & Co., 1891. gilt top, Saxony paper, An epic poem, in blank verse, of Greece in the days of Phidias, the artist, and Aspasia, a woman celebrated for her wit and beauty and her companionship and power over Pericles. Phidias was born about the year 497 B. C., and died about 431 B. C. "Phidias" is the principal poem and forms the greater part of the work. The rest of the poems are on miscellaneous themes and more modern in character. They are scholarly and refined. An appendix of notes is included.

Phidias, and Other Poems. Chicago: 12mo, ivory cl., gilt design on side, uncut edges, pp. 89, $1.25.

HARGER, MARTHA. Prayers from the Poets. New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1891. 16mo, cloth, gilt, pp. 199.

Being a collection of poems of a supplicatory character, from the best known modern poets.

HARRIS, HUNTER LEE. Twilight Songs and Other Youthfu Poems.

A dainty little white and gold brochure, with the author's picture as frontispiece. Mr. Harris is but a young man, yet his writings are promising. He says in "Retrospection" that:

There have been times when, out of twilight shades-
That time when sprites from shadowy coverts stir,
And fireflies flicker in the sheltered glades-

Sweet ghosts have come to me from days that were. We cannot doubt from what follows that those "ghosts" were pleasing ones.

HENLY, WILLIAM ERNEST, Ed. Lyra Heroica. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. 16mo, cl., gilt, pp. 17 and 368 This volume consists of a collection of poems from some of the best authors, beginning with the fifteenth century, till the present time, giving date of author's birth and death. It is admirably indexed and is further embellished by copious notes. It is a creditable piece of work for the publisher as well as author. The selections are well made and are calculated to stimulate heroism and chivalry in the breasts of its youthful readers.

I'ANSON, MILES. The Vision of Misery Hill: A Legend of the Sierra Nevada, and Miscellaneous Verse. With illustrations by Harry Fenn and others. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891. Sq. 8vo, cl., full gilt, pp. 7 and 150. The work is handsomely gotten up, and typographically is a credit to the publishers. "The inspiration of these poems was nurtured in the Sierras, and the breath of the mountains is in each line," says the Denver Times.

JEFFERIS, MAREA WOOD. In Memoriam, Faded, and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891. 8vo, cl., pp. 63.

This volume should be well received, if for no other reason than that given by the author in the dedication: "To many poor and sick children, who have few comforts or pleasures in life, may the proceeds of this little book be the means of affording some relief and some joys, that they might otherwise not have."

LANG, ANDREW, Ed. The Blue Book. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., full gilt, pp. 20 and 351.

A collection of well-known verse from wellknown authors.

LEFFINGWELL, C. W., Ed. Lyrics of the Living Church. Original poems compiled from The Living Church. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., il., pp. 8 and 275, $1.50.

This collection of poems would be of more interest had the editor added notes. The authors chosen are not, with a few exceptions, especially well known, and any information concerning them would be of interest to those most likely to require the work. The book is, on the whole, however, well edited and attractive.

SNIDER, DENTON J. Homer in Chios: An Epopee. St. Louis: Sigma Pub. Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., pp. 218.

It is the story of Homer's early life told by himself to his pupils. Mr. Snider is a poet. His diction is chaste, and in phraseology and style he reminds us of Swinburne, as attest the following lines:

Fair was the day when I first peeped into the workshop of
Chalcon,

Chalcon, the smith, who wrought long ago in the city of Chios;
Now that day is the dawn of my life which I yet can remember,
All my hours run back to its joy as my very beginning,
And one beautiful moment then let in the light of existence,
Starting within me the strain that thrills through my days to
this minute!

Still the old flash I can see as I peeped at the door of the workshop,

Memory whispers the tale of a world that I saw there,
Memory, muse of the past, is whispering faintly the story.
Homer in Chios" deserves a lasting place in
the annals of literature.

SNIDER, DENTON J. Delphic Days: A Greek Idyl. St. Louis: Sigma Pub. Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., pp. 6 and 226.

Mr. Snider seems to find his happiest inspiration from among the ancient Greeks and Romans. His writings are incomparably the best that have come to us for some time They are fervid and rhythmical, glowing with tropical sunshine, pregnant with the scent of frankincense and myrrh, and the soft breezes blown to us from the Land of Olives, of mystery, and of song. A copious addition of notes further enhances the volume.

Sosso, LORENZO, Poems of Humanity and Abelard to Heloise. San Francisco: E. B. Griffith & Sons, 1891. 16mo, hf. cl.. gilt, pp. 227.

When we come to consider the early environments of Mr. Sosso, his poems appear to us in the light of inspiration. From an article in The Californian Illustrated Magazine for February, we learn that Mr. Sosso is an Italian by birth, coming to this country when nine years of age. His father kept a bar and the boy began life under circumstances that would have ruined most other boys. Denied education, spending his few pennies in a second-hand book store, hiding his treasures to preserve them, the wonder is he has ever accomplished anything in the literary line, and taking his rapid advancement as a prophecy of what the future will do for him, or more correctly speaking, what he will do with his future, we may expect him to gain the very pinnacle of fame. Surely a nature like Sosso's is able to

"Clasp hands with fate

And mould her to his will.

STEVENS, ORRIN CEDESMAN. An Idyl of the Sun, and Other Poems. Holyoke: Griffith, Axtell & Cady Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., pp. 212, $1.25.

Pathos and philosophy are here blended into a delightful whole. Mr. Stevens is erudite. "An

Idyl of the Sun," "The Common Man," "The Wonderful Workman," and "The Bridegroom," show a highly imaginative and a versatile genius.

TRADDLES, MOSES. Poems, Sketches. Cincinnati: Keating Co., 1990. Black leatherette, 12mo, pp. 64, 70c.

Had the author signed himself Twaddles instead of Traddles, it would have been more in keeping with its contents

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WATSON, ALBERT S. The Day Dawneth. Boston: L. Prang & Company.

The firm of Prang & Co. are well known for their artistic work in getting up books and cards for special occasions. This poem is one of their most beautiful works, and is fittingly illustrated by W. Goodrich Beal. It is handsomely bound, and would make a desirable Easter gift.

WESTALL, JOHN. Wayside Poems. Boston, Mass.: NewChurch Union, 1891. 8vo, cl., gilt, pp. 10 and 200.

The author in his preface says, "The selections are presented, not so much because of their poetic merit, as for the rare qualities of character that lie behind them." Poetry should be poetic in structure and sentiment. A chromo may represent all that is meant in its more costly original, yet it would be difficult to so convince the public, and it will be no less so to satisfy the poetic instinct that this handful of jingles can be accepted for what they are meant rather than for what they are.

WILLIAMS, Rev. DWIGHT. A Birthday Idyl. Published by the author from the press of E. M. Grover, Syracuse, N. Y.

A dainty little brochure, for which this author has a most happy inspiration, suitable for a birthday gift.

WILSON, I. Mc. The Fate of the Leaf. Baltimore: Cushing & Co., 1891. 16mo, cl., pp. 47.

A fable in "rhyme," for which there is no "reason."

WITHERS, EMMA. Wildwood Chimes. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1891. 12mo, cl., silver, por., pp. 135, $1.25.

The poems, as the title indicates, are the whispering of nature to a ready interpreter. They are soothing upon the nerves after a long diet of classics, and in reading, one's mind reverts to the days of their youth; those happy school-days when we chased the butterfly, hunted the wild berries, laughed, sung and frolicked the whole live-long day, and when wearied with the day's sport we lay ourselves down to rest, wondering what new mischief we could perpetrate on the morrow.

IBID. Chastelard: a Tragedy. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866. 16mo, pp. 178.

IBID. Atalanta in Calydon: a Tragedy. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. 16m0, pp. 113. IBID. Songs of Two Nations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. 12m0, pp. viii and 78.

IBID. Erechtheus: a Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. 12m0, pp. 105.

IBID. Poems and Ballads. First series. New edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1878. 12mo, pp. ix and 338.

IBID. Songs of the Springtides. New York: R. Worthington. 12mo, pp. 135.

IBID. Studies in Song. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. 12mo, pp. 212.

IBID. Mary Stuart: a Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. 12m0, pp. 203.

IBID. Miscellaneous poems.

COXE, A. CLEVELAND. The Lady Chace: A Ballad, edited by Francis Philip Nash. Cabinet edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., 1877. 24m0, pp. 150.

IBID. Christian Ballads. A new edition, with additions. New York: James Pott & Co., 1888. 16m0, pp. xii and 240.

IBID. The Paschal: Poems for Passion-Tide and Easter. New York: James Potts & Co, 1889. 16m0, pp. vi and 232.

PERIMMER, WILL W. Driftwood. Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, 1890. 12m0, pp. 87.

CLARK, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS. The Lost Love, and Other Verse. Boston: Author's edition, 1883. 12mo, pp. vi and 428.

SHAW, EMMA. Miscellaneous poems.

JONES, FLORENCE AUGUSTA. Miscellaneous poems.

JORDAN, CORNELIA J. M. Miscellaneous poems. LOVEMAN, ROBERT. Miscellaneous poems. DOWNING, EDWARD COLLINS. Minutes with the Muses. Worcester, Ohio: Republican Press Print, 1888. pp. 24.

IBID. Miscellaneous poems.

WELBY, AMELIA. Poems by Amelia. Eighth edition, enlarged. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850. 12m0, pp. 264.

IBID. Miscellaneous poems.

KENNISH-EARL, FANNY. Miscellaneous poems. Cornell, NELLIE F. Miscellaneous poems Post, CAROLINE LATHROP. Miscellaneous poems.

EBERHART, GILBERT L. Miscellaneous poems. CRONKHITE, HENRY M., M. D. Reymond; A Drama of the American Revolution. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886. 12mo, pp. 101.

IBID. Miscellaneous' poems.

TUPPER, MARTIN F. Proverbial Philosophy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 12mo, pp. xi and 256, and 106.

Press Notices.

It will not be assumed that a writer as young as he has done his last work; but this collection will serve to show with what zeal and what artistic success Mr. Kenyon has pursued a pure and elevated literary aim. These columns have contained several reviews of Mr. Kenyon's refined and idealistic verse. But the reviewer is inclined to record once more his impressions and convictions about a literary product so delicate and fine.Syracuse Standard.

Seldom does a critic of current poetry have a more pleasant duty than when he has a volume like this in hand,-and he seldom has it. Mr. Kenyon has been schooled in the university of friendship, and has had that post-graduate experience which comes only of familiarity with life and death. His is a choice vocabulary, and his collection of verses gives that desired variety which is an added charm.-Albany Evening Journal.

This little volume contains more than one hundred and fifty poems, not one of which is without decided poetic merit. They have a rare variety and individuality, which make selection difficult. . . . No volume of poems has appeared this year in America which seems to me to contain so much of merit and of promise as this one.-The Woman's Journal (Boston).

This exquisite volume, in which the author has added largely to the number of his published poems, will add equally to his already enviable fame. For smoothness of rhythm, ease and simplicity of expression, elegance of diction, all brought into the service of poetic conception seeking exact portrayal to the mind of the reader, Mr. Kenyon can hardly be excelled. He sings most charmingly of what he sees and hears and feels; hence the reader easily and quickly shares his fancy and his emotion.-Northern Christian Advocate.

A very neat volume of poems has been issued from the press of Charles Wells Moulton, of Buffalo. The verses are by James B. Kenyon, a poet of such rare fancy and fine expression that his fame ought to travel in seven-league boots far beyond his own Syracuse. "At the Gate of Dreams" is the fetching title of this volume, which includes the contents of earlier ventures on Pegasus. There is genuine rapture in some of the pieces collected here, a lyric quality that pleases the ear, while the mind is pleased, too; it is not a mere jugglery of sound.— The Buffalo Courier.

Some of the most charming love poems in the English language, as were those in the Hebrew, have been written by men devoted to God's service. The songs in praise of Julia, as she tripped along the garden paling, in the soft glow of a June morning, have immortalized the name of Rev. Robert Herrick, and Mr. Kenyon has written some quite as delightful as any that issued from the pen of this curate of the English church. They have the aroma not only of Elizabeth and the Charleses, but of that august age of the Cæsars which listened to the Carmina of Catullus. Mr. Kenyon ranks the peer of any poet of his generation, and when we remember that the world's most precious intellectual possessions have sprung from men in the ripe maturity of their powers, we have reason to expect from his pen works which the world will not willingly let die.The Watertown (N. Y.) Post.

In this little book Mr. Kenyon proves what has not been unknown heretofore,-that he is a poet. He is full of nature and his verse declares it-not boldly, but unmistakably. He has a happy power of word picturing, and a keen sense of the æsthetic value of contrast. While giving pleasure by its beauty, his work will do good by reason of its truth, as no idle verse-making can do. The sonnets of this volume are excellent.-Buffalo Christian Advocate.

The name of James B. Kenyon has been familiar to readers of magazines for years, and especially in the Century we have been wont to read his thoughtful verses. These verses have been gathered by the author with hundreds more into a volume of over three hundred pages, which Charles Wells Moulton, of Buffalo, publishes under the main title, "At the Gate of Dreams." The volume is finely printed and its material is choice without being extraordinary. Mr. Kenyon is a gentle poet, fond of nature; acquainted with elder poets whose fashions he sometimes emulates, even to their indelicacy; and affected by many modern poets and poetasters, whom he rivals without half trying.-Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

These poems come from somewhere in the neighborhood of Parnassus. They exhale sweet fragrance of wood and of reedy stream banks. Mr. Kenyon sings clearly. His best strain is slender, but it is golden.-New York Independent.

We welcome this dainty volume of poems from the pen of one of the sweetest singers of the United States. . . Very pleasant it is to meet again in such agreeable company the poems that were yet lingering in our memory from a perusal of them in the earlier volume. Some of them have a haunting grace, the full influence of which, one is not quite conscious of until the poems are met with again, and then the thought and the music of the language revive with the mellowed subtlety and charm of pleasurable reminiscences. Especially in this way we note the freshness and prettiness of "The Belated Daffo dils," the tender grace of "She Came and Went," the pathos and completeness of "The Difference," and the suave and solemn note of "A Sea Grave." The first named might have been written by Herrick; without disadvantage to Mr. Kenyon, the last can be compared with the unmatchable

"Full fathoms five"