5 APRIL 1902, page 16

Books.

BOOK-COLLECTORS.* THE book-collector differs in intent very little from the hunter of postage-stamps. It is not his business to spoil his treasures by opening their pages. A......

Thomas Hardrs "poems Of The Past And The Present." *

Tars collection does not, of course, mark Mr. Hardy's first appearance in the ranks of the poets. In 1898 he put out a volume entitled Wessex Poems, and other Verses, of much......

Poetry.

On! met ye April on your way— And was she grave or was she gay— Saw ye a primrose chaplet lair— Upon her tangled, wind-tossed hair ? And had she on a kirtle green, The sweetest......