1 APRIL 1837, Page 20

The Vestal, and Other Poems, by HENRY VERL ANDER, B.A.

The author of this volume is not deficient in poetical spirit or in poetical expression ; and be possesses the taste and workmanlike powers which study and education give. But, as yet, he is defi- cient in thought and matter ; he wants the qualities which Pro- fessor NEWMAN would have his rhetorical pupils acquire. Hence some of his shorter pieces excel the Vestal both in wholeness and naturalness: and we would hint, with due submission to a Bachelor of Arts of St. John's College, that a betrothed bride was somewhat aged to be enrolled amongst the sacred priestesses, even if the proud Romans, in the proudest period of their history, would have permitted a Grecian captive to become one of that honoured body. SOO, HUdderifield.