. Papers ... ALLINGHAMS DAY AND NIGHTSONGS.* BY C. E. TYRER, HOSE lovers of poetry who have not yet made the J- acquaintance of William Allingham may be cordiallyrecommended to possess themselves of the new and verypretty edition of the Day and Night Songs, which has beenpublished within the present year. Some of ones oldfavourites, it is true, are absent; and it is perhaps a pity thatthe present edition does not more nearly reproduce the verycharming one of i860, to which the late D. G. Rossetti,Millais, and others contributed illustrations. We miss, forinstance, The Fairies, Lovely Mary
. Papers ... ALLINGHAMS DAY AND NIGHTSONGS.* BY C. E. TYRER, HOSE lovers of poetry who have not yet made the J- acquaintance of William Allingham may be cordiallyrecommended to possess themselves of the new and verypretty edition of the Day and Night Songs, which has beenpublished within the present year. Some of ones oldfavourites, it is true, are absent; and it is perhaps a pity thatthe present edition does not more nearly reproduce the verycharming one of i860, to which the late D. G. Rossetti,Millais, and others contributed illustrations. We miss, forinstance, The Fairies, Lovely Mary Donnelly, TheMaids of Elfen Mere, and other delightful pieces. Thepresent book consists, indeed, of a large selection from thevolume referred to, and from the Fifty Modern Poems of1865 ; and though Allingham has written much other verse,including several long poems, these two books compriseprobably nearly the whole of his best work, and to them thefollowing remarks will for the most part be confined. It cert
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