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The appearance of Mr. J. G. BarneCe. Life and Complete

Works of Michael Bruce (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 38. Ild.)• indicates that there is still a public in Scotland, and perhaps. elsewhere, to appreciate the tender, sentimental strain of minor poetry, of which the young Scots poet was a gifted exponent. -Bruce's hest known poem is the "Ode to the Cuckoo," to be found in all Scottish anthologies, the authorship, of which was fraudulently claimed by John Logan, a contem- porary lyrist and literary thief. Mr. Barnet, in the course of

his enthusiastic biography, mentions the fraud, but it would have been better if he had cited the evidence on the subject, as Eyre Todd summarizes it in his Scottish Poetry of the ,Righteenth Century.