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POETRY
"  An  elegant  birthday  or  New  Year’s  gift.”
Love  Letters.  By  a  Violinist.  Consisting;
A  COLLECTION  of  poems  setting  forth  the  eulogies  of  love.
music,  and  fidelity.  The  collection  is  divided  into  twelve
parts,  each  being  a  lyric  or  letter  addressed  to  a  beautiful  and
accomplished  lady  The  arrangement  of  the  lines  constitutes
what  may  be  considered  a  new  metre.
“  As  the  brightest  of  poets  have  passed  away!  '  ~
Now  It  s  left  between  Tennyson  and  James  Gay.”
T m.  Saturday  Review  has  treated  “Canada’s  Poet”  as  the
thinnest  joke  of  the  generation.  But  the  fact  is  this
amusing  book  is  not  ajoke  at  all.  The  whole  point  of  its  publica ­
  ion  IS,  that  like  “  English  as  She  is  Spoke,”  it  is  a  serious
book,  seriously  written,  and  its  author,  James  Gay,  is  serious  in
believing  himself  to  be  on  a  level  with  Lord  Tennyson,  to  whom
lywill  be  obsen'ed  his  “  poems  ”  are  affectionately  dedicated.
My  Ladye  and  Others:  Poems:’  Satirical,
enhall  Press,  E.C.  [Ten-and-Sixpence.
SERIES  of  charmingly  written  society  verses.

LOt^QfDOtK,  S.C.
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