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the ballads) is obviously great, Mr. Scott may be regarded as the Nestor of the school of writers in which Messrs. Swinburne and Rossetti are the leading masters. He is happier, perhaps, in his ballads than in his sonnets, though the latter are original in subject and bold in treatment. His proper place among contemporaries is a high one.

No. 198.-Page 283.

A fair example of Mrs. Pfeiffer's work. This lady has imagination, if not fancy; and the matter of her verse is always valuable.

No. 201.-Page 289.

From Poems (1873). This triolet is so neatly turned that it is to be regretted Mr. Bridges has not written more in this form than he has. As it is, he is entitled to the credit of having been the first to use it in English poetry.

No. 202.-Page 290.

This is one of several examples of the same form, printed in Proverbs in Porcelain (1877).

Here is

another specimen :

"Oh, Love's but a dance,

Where Time plays the fiddle!

See the couples advance,—

Oh, Love's but a dance!

A whisper, a glance,—

'Shall we twirl down the middle?'

Oh, Love's but a dance,

Where Time plays the fiddle !”

No. 203.-Page 291.

From The Athenæum. The reader will remark how largely and successfully Mr. Payne figures in this volume as an imitator of the old French forms. His facility in rhyme and rhythm is not more remarkable than the intrinsic poetry of his work. This rondel especially has a happy charm. So has the rondeau which forms No. 207. Nos. 210, 213, 217, 219, and 222 are here printed, by Mr. Payne's permission, for the first time. It may be mentioned that Mr. Payne has achieved, and is about to publish, a translation into English, in the original metres, of the whole poetical works of François Villon.

No. 204.-Page 292.

From Poems (1873), where it is accompanied by two other rondeaux.

No. 206.-Page 294.

Kindly written for this volume by Mr. Gosse, who is one of the leaders in the new movement for the Anglicisation of French metres.

No. 208.-Page 296.

Hitherto unprinted. Mr. Waddington is known as a graceful contributor to the magazines.

No. 209.-Page 297.

From The Athenæum. See Mr. Dobson's Note (page 342). Mr. Dobson has himself written a

rondeau in this form; i.e., the following lines, originally printed in The Spectator, but not republished in his recent volume :

Rose, in the hedge-row grown,

Where the scent of the fresh sweet hay
Comes up from the fields new-mown,
You know it-you know it-alone,
So I gather you here to-day.

For here was it not here, say?—
That she came by the woodland way,
And my heart with a hope unknown

Rose?

Ah, yes!—with her bright hair blown,
And her eyes like the skies of May,
And her steps like the rose-leaves strewn
When the winds in the rose-trees play-
It was here-O my love-my own

No. 211.-Page 300.

ROSE!

Hitherto unpublished, also. Mr. Monkhouse has written more than one "old form" in English, and always skilfully. They will no doubt appear among his forthcoming Poems.

No. 212.-Page 302.

This originally appeared in St. Paul's Magazine. The form in which it is written is one of the most ancient of French measures.

No. 215.-Page 310.

First printed in The Spectator (1877), and since republished in Gerard's Monument (second edition,

1878). It is Mrs. Pfeiffer's most successful effort in

this way.

No. 216.-Page 312.

Originally given in an article contributed by Mr. Gosse to The Cornhill (1877).

No. 218.-Page 316.

From Proverbs in Porcelain (1877), and the first original piece of its kind in English. It has been slightly retouched for this volume.

No. 220.-Page 320.

First published in Belgravia (1878), and, up to the present time, the only one of its kind in English.

No. 221.-Page 322.

Reproduced from The Cornhill article, by Mr. Gosse, above mentioned. Also the first of its kind

published in English.

Aïdé, Hamilton, i.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, viii. xlii.

Allingham, William, xlv. clxxxviii.

Arnold, Edwin, vii, lxxiv.

Arnold, Matthew, cxi. cxxv. clii. cxc. cxci. cxcii, cxciii.

cxciv.

Ashby-Sterry, J., lxvi.

Ashe, Thomas, ii. xxxiii, xliv. lviii.

Austin, Alfred, v. xlvi.

Bailey, Philip James, xxvii. lx.

Barnes, Rev. William, clxxiii.

Bennett, William Cox, cxxiii.

Bourdillon, F. W., xxii. c. ci.

Bridges, Robert, cci, cciv.

Browning, Robert, xiii. xx. xxiv. xlix. lxxiii, ciii. cvi.

Bryant, William Cullen, clxxxix.

Buchanan, Robert, xxxiv. cxxxiv. cc.

Craik, Dinah Maria, xxviii.

Dobson, Austin, lxiv. cxxxiii. cxlii. ccii. ccv. ccxiv.

ccxviii. ccxx.

Domett, Alfred, xxxi. lxxv. cv.

Dowden, Edward, lxxxii. cxxvi. cxxx, cxxxv. cli.
Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, cxviii. cxxxi. clxxxvii.

Eliot, George, civ. cix. cxxxvii, cxlv.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, cxlix.

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