Two Worlds' should have led the author to continue his
poetical exercises, and it is, no doubt, a true instinct which
has led him to tread the classic paths of song. In his choice of
subject he has not shrunk from venturing on ground occupied by at
least two Victorian poets. In neither case need he shrink from
comparison. His Marsyas is full of fine fancy and vivid
description. His Andromeda has to us one recommendation denied to
Kingsley's--a more congenial metre; another is its unstrained and
natural narrative."--_Saturday Review_, May 20th, 1876.

"In his enterprise of connecting the Greek myth with the high and
wider meaning which Christian sentiment naturally finds for it,
his success has been great. The passage in which Apollo's victory
over Marsyas and its effect are described is full of exquisite
beauty. It is almost as fine as verse on such a subject could
be.... The little volume is delightful reading. From the first
line to the last, the high and delicate aroma of purity breathes
through the various spiritual fables."--_Spectator_, May 27th,
1876.

"The blank verse is stately, yet sweet, free, graceful, and never
undignified. We confidently believe that our readers will agree
with us in regarding this as one of the finest and most
suggestive poems recently published. We trust to have, ere long,
more poetic work from his hand."--_British Quarterly Review_,
April 1st, 1876.

"The writer has shown himself more critical than his friends, and
the result is a gradual, steady progress in power, which we
frankly acknowledge.... This long passage studded with
graces."--_Academy_, April 29th, 1876.

_BOOKS I. and III. and the COMPLETE WORK._

"In one sense the idea of his Epic is not only ambitious, but
audacious, for it necessarily awakens reminiscences of Dante. Not
unfrequently he is charmingly pathetic, as in his Helen and
Psyche. There is considerable force and no small imagination in
the description of some of the tortures in the 'Tartarus.' There
is genuine poetical feeling in the 'Olympus.'... We might invite
attention to many other passages. But it is more easy to give
honest general praise than to single out particular
extracts."--_Times_, February 9th, 1877.

"The whole of this last portion of the poem is exceedingly
beautiful.... Nor will any, exc