obtain more than the usual share of admiration, may be named the extract from Mr. Moultrie's "My Brother's Grave," which was originally published in "The Etonian" (a magazine which has long ceased to exist), when the gifted author of the poem was a very young man. Mr. M'Dermot, speaking of it in his "Beauties of Modern Literature," says, after alluding to the tenderness and sweetness of the versification, “ After placing before us the deep and still silence of

'That unstartled sleep

The living eye hath never known ;'

and terrifying us with the inania regna of the ideal world, how sublimely and happily is the following image introduced :

'The lonely sexton's footstep falls,
In dismal echoes on the walls.""

No critical panegyric, however, is needed to commend the poem to the attention of its readers. Mr. Waugh's little lyric, "Come whoam to thy childer an' me," taken from his delightful volume

of "Poems and Lancashire Songs," is of universal popularity in the district where the Lancashire phrases used are understood, and the true poetry which it contains renders it worthy of world-wide fame.

It is hoped that no apology is required for the lyrical pieces here quoted; all of them are of high merit as poetical compositions, apart from their lyric character.

The compiler sincerely trusts, that the pleasure he has found in his researches to make these selections, may be reflected on the readers of the book.