21 DECEMBER 1895, Page 24

Some Wordsworth Finds? Arranged and introduced by James Medborough. (211

Gray's Inn Road.)—Mr. Medborough tells how he found a copy of a sonnet by Wordsworth about the carving on the desk in Hawkshead School (this was at Hawkahead), how he heard some fragments from a man who had acted as porter to the poet, and how he bribed, or caused to be bribed, the servant of a lady who had some MSS. in her possession. These "Finds" he prints. Whether they are really Wordsworthian matters little. Wordsworth wrote much that the world does not care to remember, and an addition to the bulk of this verse is of no importance whatever. On the genuineness of the verses we have, therefore, no opinion ; but we have a most decided one on the morality of the last transaction.