30 APRIL 1898, Page 40

Poems. By George Cookson. (A. D. Innes and Co.)—Mr.- Cookson

is clearly an enthusiastic lover of the poets, and he, has turned his admiration to some purpose in this little volume. There are passages of considerable delicacy and refinement amongst his sonnets and songs, and they would probably have been more frequent had he admired and imitated Mr. Swinburne- lees. There is more individuality and character in his Egyptian: sonnets than in the rest of his descriptive verse, because in them he has been more dependent upon himself and lees troubled by reminiscences.