"And yet the creative impulse lives in many a soul, nor has there for along time existed a more generally diffused or more exquisiteappreciation of lyrical poetry than during the past year. New poets ofan aristocratic or pious tendency are eagerly purchased and admired,which is also according to rule, since they reflect the spirit of theage, and correspond with modern wants. Such a peculiar influence on theinterest of the public at large has naturally conducted to the mostelegant style of publication of recent poems. It has become a realpleasure to see their paper, type, and binding, and their neat garmentsof fine linen, delicately trimmed and lettered with burnished gold. Sucha highly ornamented work at present adorns every table, and appearsright well in the white little hand of its fair possessor.