11 DECEMBER 1920, Page 25

The London Mercury for December contains several interesting articles, notably

Mr. J. C. Squire's appreciation of D'Annunzio, Mr. I. A. Williams's memoir of John Gay, Vernon Lee's paper on "The Narthex of Vezelay," and Mr. Geese's account of Swinburne's Anglo-Indian friend, Seymour Kirkup, who dis- covered the lost portrait of Dante attributed to Giotto in Florence. The poetry includes Mr. Va.chel Lindsay's " Hamlet " and an ode in blank verse on "The Olympic Games in Belgium," by Sir Theodore Cook.