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He has the sweetness of Wordsworth, the vigour of Southey, and the elegant versatility of Coleridge. It is, however, as a poet of the affections that Mr. Kent chiefly excels. The longer and more ambitious poems exhibit extraordinary genius."—The New Monthly Magazine. "As many of these compositions are already old acquaintances, we need only glance at the picturesque and appreciative de lineations of poets in their haunts, called 'Dreamland ;' at the rich and finished transcript from nature, entitled Fructidor ;' at the chivalrous tone of the writer's mind and its sympathy with modern ideas, as evidenced in such poems as Lamartine in February at his simple and genuine pathos, of which Amelia' is a type ; and at his sympathy with the animated pleasures of rural life, in evidence of which we may cite The Morris Dancers.' • Aletheia ' is the longest, and, on the whole, the noblest poem in the collection. It will be recurred to not only for its beauty of description, but for its pure and elevated philosophy. The reader will note not only the atmosphere in which the chief figure moves, but also the full and appropriate details which enrich the picture. The high and varied merits of the book ought to insure its popularity."—Athenaeum. " Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of The Sun,' ranks very high as a poet."—Publishers' Circular. "The versatility of style, and the fresh and vigorous writing in these poems, lend a charm which we seldom find in the poetry of the day."—Examiner. " Poems marked by grace, feeling, and strong love of nature, and a cultivated and genial spirit."—Daily News. " The poems which appear for the first time in this volume are not unworthy of the author's earlier productions."—Daily Telegraph. " Mr. Kent may not aspire to be classed among the Dii Majores ' of the poetic court, but assuredly he will take a very respectable position among the lesser divinities."—Standard. "There is much that is very beautiful in the poems before us—a collection of the thoughts, the emotions, the feelings of a whole lifetime."—Tablet. The "Rock " expresses its " cordial admiration for the genius and the taste of Mr. Kent as a poet of very considerable powers and culture," adding, " The real vigour of Mr. Kent's poetical spirit manifests itself chiefly in dealmg with the feelings. He is equally at home in pathos and in terror, and in strains that go right to the heart and stir the emotions to the lowest depths." "Mr. Charles Kent has long been known to wield a facile pen in writing poems of the class just indicated, and it is but fair to add that he takes high rank among the minor poets."—Echo. The "Westminster Review." while regretting it " cannot join in the chorus of praise, nor share in the enthusiasm which has been raised over Mr. Kent's poems," adds that it " cannot, how ever, part with the book without expressing a word of praise for its generous tone and sympathies." "He is a true poet, and his works will live."—News of the World. "We have the pleasant task of welcoming, as a real addition to the ranks of our true poets, Mr. Kent. He is something more than a mere versifier ; he is a real poet, and has proved it. Milton at Cripplegate '—an exquisite picture of the blind old poet discoursing sweet sounds upon the organ in solitary but resigned sadness—is a poem that ought to live. Such of our readers as care for the roll of Milton's own blank verse, for thoroughly poetic fancies, for delicate imagery, and fora high and pure tone of moral feeling, we must leave to ponder over this short poem for themselves."—London Figaro. " That very graceful poem which appeared hi the Times' as a welcome to Longfellow, and which, from the initials, was attributed to the author of Hypatia, was written by Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of The Sun,' and was worthy of a priest of Phcebus Apollo."—Punch. " We find in the volume a luxuriant imagery, the fruit of a life-long study of nature. As for flowers !—Mr. Kent is as well up in them as Shakspere himself. Lastly, it recommends itself to us by its historical sympathies and views, and by the charm ing pictures of domestic life, with its affections and blessings, which it frequently affords us." —The Month. " When the goddess Flora appoints a poet laureate, it will certainly be Mr. Charles Kent. His poems absolutely glow with flowers in as vivid and delicate word-painting as ever depicted them. 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Stanhope, at present private secretary to the First Lord of the Admi- ralty, will shortly be appointed to a command afloat.— The Admiralty have given instructions for steps to be at once taken for the recovery of the machinery of H. 11L S. Psyche, lately wrecked off Point Molino, and to send such portions as may be saved to Malta. The Army and Nam Gazette says :—Mr. Chiilders's cruise will extend to Lisbon, Gibraltar, and probably to the Mediterranean. The same paper contains the following : Another paymastership is placed in the gift of the Secretary of State for War by the death of Major W. Browne, 45th Regiment. —Apropos of the augmentation of the Royal Engineers, we are informed that the promo tions of the first captains to the rank of lieutenant-colonel will not be gazetted for the present. Fifteen lieutenants were advanced to the grade of second captain a fortnight ago as the first step towards the augmentation ; but, as regards the further carrying out of the de cisions of the War Office, difficulties stand in the way. The miserable exhibition to which the country has been treated at Portsmouth by the prosecution of certain ships' stewards might to a great extent have been avoided if Mr. Baxter, who is admitted to be a good tradesman, but too impetuous in the opinion of those who pretend to know him for the office he holds, had been less fussy, and that the captains had been ordered to bring charges against the accused. It was a most absurd proceeding that in the Boscawen case her commander was not called for the pro secution, inasmuch as he was only brought forward by the defence for character, he could not be cross-examined. The business from the beginning to the end was one of a dirty character, and meet for the borough sessions and not for a court-martial. The Broad Arrow mentions a rumour that Woolwich Dockyard is once more to be put in working order, and that some of the new gunboats which are ordered to be built in the coming financial year will be laid down at that yard. The same paper believes that Sir William Mansfield, at the expiration of his leave of absence, will resume his posi tion as Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces in Irelind.—Rewards for distinguished service have been granted to Major-General Lord H. H. M. Percy, V.C., and Colonels R. C. H. Taylor, C. 8., Assistant Adjutant- General of the London District, and E. A. Somerset, C.B„ unattached. The Nothe Fort, which overlooks Weymouth, and the batteries on the slopes under the Verne citadel, at Port land, are to be armed with 12 ton guns. When the Cavalry Depot is re-established—for its re establishment seems almost a matter of necessity, so com pletely has the new system of regimental affiliation failed —it will, as before, be quartered at Canterbury. The Standard has been informed on good authority that it is intended at once to abolish purchase of any rank above that of captain. The Sheffield School Board have resolved to con tribute two shillings per week towards the maintenance of each boy sent from Sheffield to the Humber training ship, Southampton, the payments to date from the Ist of January last. NEW ORDER OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.— The Lord Chancellor has made a special order as to the Chancery vacation. It is to commence this year on the 29th March and terminate on the 7th April, both days inclusive. As Good Friday happens on the 7th of April, the Lord Chancellor has directed that the office of the Accountant-General shall be opened on Easter Mon day and Tuesday for the payment of the Chancery divi dends. THE SMALLPDX IN LONDON.-011 Friday evening Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Castle Tavern, Hol loway-road, touching the death of Emma Hills, aged eight years, who died on the 29th ult. from small pox. The mother, who, it appears, was unable to read, had neglected to have the child vaccinated. In the course of the in quiry it was elicited that the Islington Workhouse was full of smallpox patients, and there was no room in any other part of the parish for those cases ; that the parish authorities had no place where the beds, ezc„ of poor people who had had smallpox in their homes could be properly disinfected ; and that the ves try distributed bottles of carbolic acid and packets brimstone for such purposes. Dr. Lankester said he was perfectly astonished at the apathy shewn by the government in this matter. The rinderpest attracted the attention of the Privy Council at once, but human life was, of course, nothing compared with animal life. There was legislation for property and for money, but none for human life. He would also say that something ought to be done towards enlightening people who could not read, on the subject of vaccination, and the authorities of Islington parish would do well to provide a proper place for disinfecting purposes, and the sanitary inspector ought to make a house-to-house visitation immediately, but he Was afraid—and as an Englishman ashamed— to think that the proper steps would only be taken when it was too late. BREAKFAST.—EPES'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM goRTING,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has re ndered it a general favo urite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful a pplication of the fine properties of well-sel ec t e d cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided . our breakfast tables with a d e li ca t e ly flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS & CO., Homcco pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacabine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. The Saturday Review declares that everyone is most anxious to ascertain, or willing to guess, what Count Bis marck really wants. The Times correspondent at Berlin has undertaken to supply the desired information, and has telegraphed that Count Bismarck wants Alsace and Lor raine, with Belfort and Metz, twenty of the largest ships of the French navy, Pondicherry, and £400,000.000 ster ling. The terms of even an imaginary list of demands afford matter for discussion, because France can scarcely be asked to do more than give money, ships, colonies, and territory, and the only question is as to the amount. Twenty large ships is said to he about all the ironclads the French have got, and thus the demand amounts to the transfer of the valuable part of the French navy. Un doubtedly France -could make over the number of ships, and Germany might he glad to receive them ; and so far this would be the easiest part of the supposed settlement to carry out practically. But how can it be believed that France can be asked to pay four hundred millions sterling? If this project for the cession of Pondicherry could be con sidered as deserving serious discussion, it is not to be denied that the passing of this valueless settlement into German hands, although it could do Germany no good, might do England harm. England cannot afford to see the introduction of a new and agitating element into In dian politics, and the excited imaginations of the natives would in all probability see in a German settlement at Pondicherry the rising of the little black cloud that was eventually to overshadow the sky of English power. The territory to be ceded is by far the most important part of the terms of peace. Alsace may be looked on as gone, and France, if she can swallow the humiliation of having to cede a province that has been perfectly faithful to her, and is most reluctant to be separated from her, may cede Alsace without any very serious loss. But the line of the Moselle, including Metz, is a very different thing. If Germany has Metz, while it will be protected from all danger of invasion, it will always see France lying open before it. The blow to France will be immense. She will be as Italy was while Austria still held the Quadrilateral. The question, however, whether Metz is to become Ger man or not must be looked at solely from the point of view of the harm it will do to France. We have also to con sider what may be the reasons that would be likely to induce the Germans to insist on retaining it. The Ger mans who have made up their minds to retain so much of French territory as they can hold effectively and at little cost, and yet will make them safe from France, will think solely of what there is to induce them to relinquish the hold they have got on the fortress which is much more truly the key of France than Strasburg was the key of Germany. The Economist says the terms which it is alleged that Germany asks of France are so harsh and so improbable that we cannot believe them. They have not indeed been contradicted, and considering that they may excite France to continue the war, and may cause her to elect an Assembly inflamed with war passion, the absence of contradiction is strange. Still we cannot believe them. The alleged pecuniary indemnity is impossible. France could not raise £400,000,000, or any thing like that sum. It would require her to add more than £30,000,000 to her annual taxation, which would not be possible. France is, speaking broadly, a country of great savings but of small earnings. Such a country cannot be taxed as you would tax a young Anglo-Saxon community—as you would tax America, where the power of tax-paying is at a maximum, and the disposition to pay equally great. In France both the ability to pay and the willingness are small comparatively. We must re member, too, that the time within which the fine to Germany must be paid by France is limited. Until it is paid, Germany must occupy and must hold in pledge some important part of France, and this would be very onerous, very costly, and very unpleasant, if it lasted many years. In 1815 the Duke of Wellington commanded an army of occupation in France, but it was abandoned before long, and part of the fine remitted. The position of a garrison in a country still hostile, though peace has been declared, is very tedious and very irksome. A national army like that of Germany would probably dis like it peculiarly ; more than any other it would like to go home to its friends to relate its deeds, and enjoy its glory. The compensation must be made therefore by France to Germany within some brief time, and that of itself narrows the amount. France could not borrow anything near the monstrous sum asked unless the loan were spread over a very long period, even if she could borrow it then. We therefore entirely disbelieve the amount of the alleged indemnity. The rest of the terms though severe are, we fear, not so unlikely. The marvellously— the even absurdly—harsh article is the £400,000,000 of indemnity, and this we disbelieve. If anything could justify M. Gambetta's proclamation and his wish to con tinue the war, it would be such a proposal as that. We hope and believe, says the John Bell, that we do not yet know the official German ultimatum, and we cannot but hold that this may be very seriously modified by the existence or non-existence of a Legal Monarchical Government in France. The Republic in France is practically identified with irreligion and irreverence, with war, at least moral and literary war, on all, constituted authorities throughout Europe. It is therefore fraught with danger to the internal peace and welfare of Germany and of all other European nations. Is it, then, really statesmanlike or judicious in any journal to say, " Oh, that is all a matter for future consideration : we had better not raise any of these questions now ?" That may be sensible reasoning on the part of those who are pre pared to see Alsace and Lorraine torn from France, and half of the French fleet surrendered to the conqueror. I But those who, like ourselves, desire a permanent peace, and not an armed truce in which all nations shall be pre-. paring for another death-struggle, who wish to see produc. who tion dreadand c o a m p m r a e c r t c i c e a revive d l b o o c t kh forin F l r o a n n g c e y e a a n r s d to Germany, c ome of all social and political life throughout the Continent, cannot but hold it in the highest de.;ree desirable to avert, if possible, so fearful a consummation ; and we feel that the first condition of this is the establishment of a respect. able Government in France, between which and Imperial Germany there may be permanent ties of mutual respect and good will. Now is it unreasonable to say that this can scarcely be the case with a democratic Republic ? And, therefore, does not this question of the future form of Government in France form the true preliminary to the conclusion of any just or lasting peace? n 0 remedy. irn i sglwf estGsickening cc e k r hee n: t on n choose, i se n n er g y : THE GERMAN DEMAND FOR PONDICHERRY. There is reason, we fear, says the Spectator, for the kind of instinctive wince with which Englishmen hear that Germany has included the cession of Pondicherry among the conditions of peace. What in the world can Bismarck want with that little Indian enclave ? Count Bismarck does not make mistakes for want of information and if he takes Pondicherry, he takes it with political rather than commercial objects, —to obtain a foothold in India, rather than to acquire a mere possession. Here is a new power in India, a great power, a power of which the English speak with 'bated breath, and that power will become at once the pivot of intrigue. Of course, if the Hohenzollerns so will it, there will be nothing of all this e tr h o e u r b ry le w ; i b ll u b t e it a will V t il h l e re le s as t with iathwtehaepmentowahvieohidniita,yanbde Ptuornudeid• against us. we could not enforce our restrictive asks dautri France pociihoal ibmr h rree a yNnva s itki n wi c o ahhrt ee s hni p ew it e e l nv c is i ,ei a e l e mo t i ve :les they e vmidu es f nt o : r retaining it, and treaties without awar, . There is however, have a s a Chatham ; but it until we the Times say that even in German hands to hear we can a With ten thousand men there and a man like Von Infeitthheer outliwerrarmyuaslenrstsakoereheopeueroenp Werder in command, the work would require 20,000 Europeans, half the disposable white army, and the south might all the while be covered with insurrection.; Does the Times think the Mussulmans of Hydrabad and Mysore would sit quiet while our hands were full, or that they would aid us to maintain the power which for a century has been their despair ? Or does it, perchance, believe that the policy of 1760 could be repeated, and that London and Berlin would agree that while there was war in Asia there should be peace in Europe ? 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