_MANCHESTER COURIER._—‘Considerable variety of style and sentiment are illustrated in these interesting verses. The dramatic Idyll ILAMEA; HONORIA’S LOVE, and other Sonnets; EDAIN, AN ANCIENT LEGEND OF IRELAND; POEMS IN BLANK VERSE; CÆDMON, AN EARLY ENGLISH IDYLL, together with SONGS and LYRICAL POEMS, are all samples of composition which indicate that the author is no novice in such work. In HONORIA’S LOVE are depicted the several emotions of the mind when under the influence of love, each sonnet expressing a separate phase of that passion which is admitted to be the strongest of all human passions. Owing to the form of the verse these eighteen sonnets are less a love story, perhaps, than an exposition of the emotions. The following is a specimen of them.... With one other quotation we will close this admirable book. ‘LOVE, THE UNIVERSAL LAW. ‘As atom unto atom firmly lies Obeying blindly that great law which makes Subservient even lifeless matter; wakes An energy, a force whose hidden ties Bind animate, or inanimate in wise True order. See, the silver cloudlet breaks, With others interweaves; thus changed forsakes An individual existence, dies. ‘Wave follows wave in rhythmic lines, and one By one they lose themselves in close embrace; Thus are we twain commingled: our lives run In closest sympathy; we interlace Our mind’s emotions: now, there hath begun Creation new, to which past life gives place.’ _OXFORD CHRONICLE._—‘This is an 8vo. volume, printed in clear type, on thick paper; cloth, gilt lettered. Its pages are laden with the music of the love song and old-time love story. The aim of the author, not only to reach the reasoning faculties, but to appeal to the imagination and emotions; and to yield that pleasure to the mind which is the design of poetry as of music, has been gained. True poetry, it has been said, portrays, with terrible energy, the excesses of the passions; but they are passions which show a mighty nature; which are full of power; which command awe, and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy. Its great tendency and power is to carry the mind above and beyond the beaten, dusty, and weary walks of ordinary life: to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it a more profound and generous emotion. This consummation has been obtained by the dramatic Idyll ILAMEA, with which Part I. opens. Its sublimity and elegance of style entitle it to rank as one of the finest classics ever written on love.’