who has prefaced it with a graceful memoir of Caroline Bowles. This lady, afterwards the second Mrs. Southey, possessed literary talents of no mean order, and her letters display genuine touches of humour. Her autobiographical poem The Birthday, published in 1836, from which Prof. Dowden has gathered the materials for his pleasing sketch of her early life, suggests to him a comparison with Cowper; while some of her minor poems, such as The Young Grey Head and The Murder Glen, obtain for her the title of the "Crabbe of modern poetesses." To the general public she is best known for her Chapters on Churchyards, sketches of rural life in prose contributed to Blackwood's Magazine. Her portrait, which is prefixed to the volume, is photographed from a crayon likeness drawn by herself for Southey. The face is that of a refined, sensitive, somewhat melancholy woman, though a certain archness of expression suggests that to her intimate friends she would have been an amusing and agreeable companion. In 1818 her straitened circumstances impelled her to seek an income by her pen. Southey's kindness to Kirke White encouraged her to consult him, though he was a total stranger to her. Thus commenced the correspondence contained in this volume, covering the years 1818 to 1836, and an acquaintance which ripened into more than friendship and ultimately into marriage. Southey befriended her, introduced her to publishers, suggested titles for her books, such as Solitary Hours, and subjects for her verse, such as The Legend of Santarem, and entered into a partnership with her to write a poem on Robin Hood. The chief interest of the volume consists in the scraps of literary gossip, the interchange of ideas, plans, and ambitions. Sir Walter Scott, Mary Wollstonecraft, Landor, Shelley, Henry Taylor, and a host of minor celebrities appear in these pages. Nor are the letters without interest in illustrating the political sentiments of persons like Southey and Miss Bowles at a time when Liberalism was confounded with Jacobinism, and the premiership of Canning was regarded as the dawn of an English Age of Reason.

commendation our own special favourite from the Hel-
lenics, the exquisite and faultless Artemidora.
Prof. Masson's book is of a different type, but of equal
interest. His work is, perhaps, more laborious and slow-
moving, less fine and intuitive than that of the Landor
but it is sterling of its kind, and commands a respect
which qualities less genuine and weighty would fail to
secure. He, too, has a biography behind him, the Life
of De Quincey, by Mr. H. A. Page (is it not an open
secret that the writer of this standard book is Dr. A. H.
Japp?); but he has been able to supplement it in a very
important way by personal reminiscences, and to throw
upon it the light of a thorough familiarity with the
scenes in which De Quincey spent the last years of his
life. For the rest, is not Prof. Masson the author of
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are better testimonies to his powers than any praise of
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Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales.
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but sufficient account of Asbjörnsen and his friend Jor-
gen Moe, to whose joint labours this delightful collection
of fairy tales is due, although the lion's share of the work
belongs to the former. Of the stories themselves we will
only say that if this notice of them is somewhat tardy, it
is simply owing to their extreme popularity in the writer's
household, where they were eagerly appropriated and as
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