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Bunton Corcla. By F. W. Bourdillon. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Bourdillon's

name will not be unknown to the readers of the Spectator, and it will be sufficient to commend to their notice this volume of graceful verse. Some of the poems have appeared in these columns; others have been published elsewhere. If we may give a word of advice, it is that Mr. Bourdillon should be un- sparing of the limo labor. "Have patience," says an Eastern proverb, "and the mulberry-leaf will become satin." There is no amount of polish which cannot be given by care, if that care be unstinted. A man who can write a good stanza ought never to

write a bad one.