HIS volume makes no pretension to anti

quarian research, though it commences. with a short extract from the poet-herdsman of the seventh century; nor does it profess to give specimens from all the poets with whom our country has been so richly dowered.

It simply offers-in accordance with its title "gleams" from the divine light which has shone on our race now for twelve cen

turies-waxing and waning with the passing years, but never extinct; and though differing in glory in its several manifestations, always a light in which we rejoice.

The selections, though kept together in centuries, are not arranged in strict chronological order, as greater variety was