10 MARCH 1944, Page 22

THIS is a really admirable and unusual anthology. It is

full of interesting matter drawn from unexpected as well as obvious sources. It also, unlike the majority of anthologies, has a plan, and the authors stick to this plan and have thus provided the curious reader with a pretty complete topographical description of the whole of England and Wales in verse. They have chosen well from the literary point of view, too, and with a catholic taste which ranges from Doughty to T. S. Eliot, from Izaak Walton to Ruth Pitter, so that Mr. Edmund Blunden's superscription on the title-page "We have lived this landscape" is delightfully appropriate.