r He T r / B i n E !.

Revue W 5

rbe Lady Jane and other Humorous
Poems-By ". p. Willis.
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VIC never could see why Mr.. Willis enter
..;n.d such regard for this poem, lady
1,,al unless for the same reason that mother
,lravs has a peculiar affection ior dciormed,
:, IDIOT child If one were to copy out the
.lo,ter, contained between the 56th and G3d
,.nzas Of Canto l., he might, in strict justice, be
D-osecuted for infringing on the copyright. We
III, ercept. however, the Sd, 4th and 5th stanzas
ofCanto II. Throw away the other hundred and
,;netv.one. and there would be precious little lost
yye should never have dreamed that Mr.. Willis
wrote this poem if he had not put his name to it,
and we have often been puzzled to imagine how
he cot through it. But the letter would save
another two or three hundred Just such stanzas,
;fthev were fastened to it. 1t is one of the most
rerfect things of the kind VIC ever read. Mr..
Willis never composed tit came to him in some
roonent of inspiration all the art in the world
could not create it. There is no effort in it to
say clever things to produce an effect. The Ian
guace is simple and natural, yet every word IS an
embodiment Of feeling. 1t is from mother to a
female friend, to whom she cntrusts her fair and
lovely boy. 1t has no preface, and no perorat!on
no rhetoric, and no catalogue Of wishes. 1t
canot be described. 1t is simply the natural ex-
preston of most passionate heart, and that
heart mothers, and heart, too, Of the most
biph.wrought and sensitive nature The Epistle
commences