10 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

Imaginations in Verse. By G. J. Bridges. (Commercial Ex- change.)—This

unpretending little volume should not be over- looked by lovers of poetry. Along with a certain awkward- ness that marks the beginner, it exhibits a sense of style and a note of unforced pathos which suggest the work of the better-known poets of his name,—the authors of "Wet Days" and the " Shorter Poems." Not a few of the descriptive passages strike us as excellent, particularly some verses of the "Old Hulk."