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"The Boy's Poem' abounds indeed in isolated passages, passionate, descriptive, or reflective, almost unmatched in modern poetry. Mr. Smith has a heart to feel, and a hand to paint, imperishable affections. He has laid his ear to the heart of a great City, and detected all its finer throbbings...... In him we have the elements of a poet of a high order. . . . . He has strength and music; his 'Boy's Poem' gives evidence of sustained power and moral unity." GUARDIAN. "Mr. Alexander Smith is a poet. It is fair to premise this before commencing detailed criticism. His Life Drama gave him a title to the name, and the present volume does not forfeit it. There is in his verse that indefinable element of attractiveness which stands to language in the relation of soul to body, and saves it from deadness, inanity, insipidity. He is not one of that large shoal of writers whose poems are read by an effort, and claim, at best, the praise of not being liable to censure." LEADER. 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