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 reason, perhaps, one of the most easily comprehensible of his poems.

The effect of the whole series can not be reproduced by the citation of extracts and examples: the poems should be read, preferably at one sitting.

Hardy's special fields of interest,—all his "hobbies"—both artistic and scientific, can be traced as easily through his lyric poems as through his prose writings. If we now look into his poetry for expressions of his philosophical outlook upon human life and its significance in the general scheme of the universe, we shall find a most unexpected richness of material. Even without