[Sidenote: Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884).] Charles Stuart Calverley, the scholarly and witty author of _Verses and Translations_ (1862) and _Fly Leaves_ (1872), had a faculty for more serious things, but, partly from indifference, partly because of the accident which made great effort in his later years impossible, he never wrote anything worthy of his talents. What he has left however is the very best of its kind. He is one of the most skilful of translators; and his parodies and satiric verse are excellent. [Sidenote: Mortimer Collins (1827-1876).] Mortimer Collins, poet and novelist, had a very happy knack for the lighter kinds of lyrical verse, half playful and half serious. Under pressure of circumstances he wrote too much, and the failure to 'polish and refine' tells against a great deal of his work. [Sidenote: William Cory (1823-1892).] William Cory, originally Johnson, for many years one of the masters of Eton, was the author of a small volume of Poems entitled _Ionica_ (1858), which, after long neglect, won, in its third edition of 1891, the attention due to thoughtfulness and scholarly expression. Cory's best pieces, such as _Mimnermus in Church_, soar beyond the range of the minor poet, and show that it only needed quantity to insure him a considerable place in literature. But he wrote few such pieces, and indeed little verse of any kind after _Ionica_. [Sidenote: Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810-1888).] Sir Francis Hastings Doyle succeeded Matthew Arnold in the chair of poetry at Oxford. Doyle is distinguished for the spirit and the martial ring of the ballads in which he celebrates deeds of daring. _The Red Thread of Honour_, _The Private of the Buffs_, and _Mehrab Khan_ are pieces that take high rank among poems inspired by sympathy with the heroism of the soldier. [Sidenote: Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886).] Sir Samuel Ferguson has been called the national poet of Ireland, on the score of _Congal_, an epic published in 1872. He is really more remarkable for his shorter pieces, some of the best of which deal with subjects not specially Irish. He was an active contributor to the _Dublin University Magazine_ at the beginning of the period. [Sidenote: Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870).] Adam Lindsay Gordon divides with Charles Harpur and Alfred Domett (Browning's 'Waring') the honour of being laureate of the Antipodes. Wildness in youth drove him to Australia. It is probably true that but for the stirring and adventurous life there he never would have written anything of note; nevertheless, what we find in his verse is rather the spirit of the English hunting field and of English adventure the world over, than much that is distinctively Australian. [Sidenote: David Gray (1838-1861).]