--Mr. Latham Cornell Strong is modest in his preface about his collection of verse,[32] although he is rather too elaborately metaphorical in his way of blushing properly. He says, as to the flaws in his poems, that he "has a reasonable confidence that they will not all be discovered by any one reader." This may be true from the probable fact that no one reader will read them all; we think that we have met with enough of them to show that Mr. Strong might well have refrained himself from publication. For example, we think that a true poet could hardly have written many such passages as these, and there are many such in the volume: The night is rising from the trees, Her _hands_, uplifted, _trail_ with stars The moon hath flung _its banners_ on the sward Old Rupert named, _alone of all the rest_ She most esteemed, for he had brought her flowers, To wreathe her tresses and make manifest His sympathy for her, _in many ways expressed_ The last four lines unite incorrectness, tameness, and inelegance with remarkable and fatal facility. FOOTNOTES: [12] "_The Theistic Conception of the World._ An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought." By B. F. COCKER, D.D., LL.D. New York: Harper & Brothers. [13] "_Religion and the State_; or, The Bible and the Public Schools." By SAMUEL T. SPEAR, D.D. 12mo, pp. 393. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [14] "_A Complete Life of General George A. Custer_," etc. By F. WHITTAKER, Brevet Captain Sixth N. Y. V. Cavalry. New York: Sheldon & Co. [15] "_The Lord's Land_: A Narrative of Travels in Sinai, Arabia, Petraea, and Palestine, from the Red Sea to the Entering in of Hamath." By HENRY B. RIDGAWAY, D.D. New York: Nelson & Phillips. [16] "_New Mexico and the New Mexicans_: A Political Problem." By an Officer of the Army. [17] "_Through and Through the Tropics._" By FRANK VINCENT, Jr. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1876. [18] "_Archivos do Musen Nacional do Rio de Janeiro._" Imprensa Industrial. [19] "_The Wages Question._ A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class." By FRANCIS A. WALKER. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $3.50. [20] "_Elsie's Motherhood._" A Sequel to "Elsie's Womanhood." By MARTHA FINLEY (FARQUHARSON). New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [21] "_Near to Nature's Heart._" By Rev. E. P. ROE. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [22] "_Edelweiss_: An Alpine Rhyme." By MARY LOWE DICKINSON. New York, 1876. [23] "_Frithiof's Saga._ A Norse Romance." By ESAIS FEGNER, Bishop of Wexio. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas A. Holcombe and Martha and Lyon Holcombe. 16mo, pp. 213. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. [24] "_Colony Ballads_, etc., etc., etc., etc." By GEORGE L. RAYMOND. 16mo, pp. 95. New York: Hurd & Houghton. [25] "_Washington_: A Drama in Five Acts." By MARTIN F. TUPPER. 16mo, pp. 67. New York: James Miller. [26] "_The National Ode._ The Memorial Freedom Poem." By BAYARD TAYLOR. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 74. Boston: William E. Gill & Co.