23 JANUARY 1897, page 18

Books.

THREE VOLUMES OF POETRY.* THE Poet-Laureate has written" The Conversion of Winckel- mann " as a study in the school of Browning. In style it is something between "Bishop......

Ibsen's New Play.*

THAT some of Ibsen's plays are in a high degree interesting and exciting it is impossible to doubt. We may hate their morbid frenzy, we may despise their absence of all heroic......