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It may, perhaps, be that an addiction to 'resolutions grows upon most poets. A verse- writer becomes increasingly prompt to hold the true rhythm, the fundamental beats of his line -against the invasion of multiplied syllables, and delights in doing so. But there is a point at which this power betrays him : and we think that Mr. Bayfleld, whose sympathetic listening to ' Shakespeare's music seems almost to have identified his hearing with the poet's, has certainly more than once suffered his ear to be thus betrayed. It must have been either a process of subtle sophistication, or a loss of straightforward judg- ment from the sheer overstrain of a faculty that could make him re-arrange as he has done the end of ' Antony and Cleopatra.' This perverse ingenuity illustrates also the perilousness of a too -exclusive attention to versification, for these particular lines in our author's setting out are not only hopeless as verse, but inapt as render- ing Caesar's last utterance in the play.

We would not, however, conclude on a note of

remonstrance : the book is one to which we

-ourselves owe much enjoyment, and to which, as

we said above, the attention of students of

'Shakespeare is certainly due.

Last Verses. By Percy Addleshaw. (Elkin Mathews, 2s. 6d. net.)

IT is now some four years since the death of William Percy Addleshaw, an occasional contri- butor to our columns. Mr. Arundel Osborne

i introduces this collection of his remaining verse by a very sympathetic short biography. He has much to tell of physical suffering and of the repeated checks imposed by ever-increasing bad health to what might have been a brilliant career. Commenting on Addleshaw's " cheeriness " as a friend and correspondent Mr. Osborne remarks that " only the poems show the darker side of his

-spirit." The reader readily understands that this is so ; though habitual courage makes itself

, felt even in the melancholy of these verses. Their

-chief attraction lies in the interest in the writer which they contrive to arouse. They rarely touch the height of absolute poetry ; and once or twice the imagery shows a want of poetical tact : but they have life in them and sincerity and meaning. We liked best one or two of the

- quartrains, the verses entitled respectively ' Church Stretton,' ' In Many Ways,' ' In the hiaia,' and ' The Rope,. Walk.'

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MR. D. R. McCoRD. The ' D.N.B.' has a full article on the brothers Sobieski Stuart, and theit history has been fully discussed in our own columns. See 5 S. viii." 28, 58, 92, 113, 158, 214, 274, 351, 397 of which the third reference should particularly be noted ; 6 S. iii. 265, and 12 S. i. 110, 156, 190, 277.

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AT 12 S. v. 245, col. 2, the reference to the Magdalen College Register should bear the name of .1. R. Bloxam not W. D. Macray. We owe this correction to MR. W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

I. F. For details concerning the Fawcett-Munro duel see Miller's ' St. Pancras, Past and Present,' pp. 269-73, and Walford and Thornburg's ' Old and New London,' v. 376, also ' N. and Q.' 8 S. ix. 230 and 10 S. iv. 72.

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