Poems. By G. Washington Moon, author of a "Defence of
the Queen's English." (Hatehard and Co.) Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. (F. Pitman.)—One is unwilling to speak unkindly of little books of this sort, which have a directly religious purpose. They may do some good, but people who profit by them must be rather weak vessels, babes in the wisdom of this world. Take a sample from Mr. Moon:— " Then nurse each tender feeling; do good while yet you may ; kind words have power of healing ; and life hastes fast away."
The other volume, by Mr. or Miss Farquhar, seems to us to be quite as good as this. But Mr. Moon being, since his contest with Dean Alford, quite a celebrity, has, of course, the advantage of fine type, binding, and paper, and, besides, is indulged in the caprice of eliminating the usual capital letter at the beginning of each line. His motto is taken from the works of the poet Tupper, which reminds one of an old proverb about birds of a feather.
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