Through Storm and Sunshine. By Aden. (Henry S. King and
Co.).— We can forgive a poet for being most melancholy, if we also find him most musical. Adon is far from being musical ; he gives us plenty of storm and no sunshine ; his personages go through the most heart- breaking experiences, but they express themselves under them in so common-place and every-day a fashion, that we are sure plain prose would answer their purpose much better than,—well, rhyme. We had marked several passages in which the very limits of bathos itself appear to have been reached, but we forbear. Some of the illustrations are pretty, and all are worthy of the text, but the gentleman in the velveteen coat is hardly fitted with what Adon calls "bridal guise" (itself an odd phrase for a man's dress). If Adon really agonises as much as he says, we entreat him to spare himself for the future.
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