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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 18. 1855. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



' At this pleasant season, when the whole work-a-daj' 

 world is bent on holiday-making, poetry seems at a pre- 

 mium; and our library table is enriched with sundry 

 indications as to this direction of the popular mind. We 

 will not attempt, in the limited space which we can de- 

 vote to such matters, to indulge in a dissertation upon 

 the merits of Mr. Tennyson's Maud; but refer such of 

 our readers as lack criticism on this last bright spark 

 hammered from the brain of the Laureate to the Examiner, 

 for a well-considered and eulogistic lecture on its more 

 patent beauties ; and to the Athenccum for an article rich 

 in critic-craft, and in the elucidation of the more esoteric 

 charms of this " thing of beauty." We will rather con- 

 tent ourselves with calling attention to what has lately 

 been doing to secure new readers and fresh welcome for 

 some of the older masters of song. 



First turn we to the new volume of the Annotated Edi- 

 tion of the British Poets. . It is the first of the Poetical 

 Works of Samuel Butler, edited by Robert Bell ; and con- 

 tains a carefully-written biography by the editor, and 

 the first and second Parts of Hudibras. Some idea of the 

 value of this new edition will be found in the fact that 

 it is founded upon a careful examination of the former 

 editions, from the earliest to the last reprint of that by 

 Dr. Nash; that the text has been carefully collated; 

 •obscurities from vague or false punctuation have been 

 removed ; and in the illustrative annotations special re- 

 gard has been had to the brief notes either known, or 

 supposed to have been written, by Butler himself. We 

 can scarcely anticipate but that, with such careful tender- 

 ing, Mr. Bell will succeed in awakening a new interest in 

 Butler in the minds of the reading public. 



Of somewhat less ambitious character are three volumes 

 recently issued by Mr. Routledge, under the editorship of 

 the Rev. R. A. Wilmott. The first of these is dedicated 

 to the Poetical Works of William Cowpr, which are con- 

 tained in one compact and neatly-printed volume. 

 Cowper is evidently a favourite with Mr. Wilmott, who 

 has obviously bestowed considerable pains in the brief 

 preliminary " picture-sketch of his life and genius." The 

 second volume contains The Poetical Works of Thomas 

 Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, 

 and Thomas Warton, of whom it is said by their editor, 

 that " they bear a kind of relationship to each other, and 

 seem to gain a grace and charm from the bond of fellow- 

 ship that unites them." That this will be a welcome 

 volume to many readers, none can doubt. And the same 

 may safelv be predicated of the third, which contains The 

 Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and John Dyer, and in 

 this volume we have the best specimen of Mr. Wilmott's 

 editorship. The biography of Dyer contains new ma- 

 terials now first furnished by his descendants, and for the 

 first time a genuine portrait of the poet— that which has 

 hitherto passed for one being really the likeness of 

 another Mr. Dyer. We may add that all three volumes 

 are gracefully illustrated by Mr. Birkett Foster. 



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