12 MARCH 1927, Page 35

When this reviewer heard

"Daisy and Lily Lazy and silly

Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree," declaimed through a megaphone by one of the Mr. Sitwell', he thought it sounded clever, but in cold print the two sylphs of the poem appear frigid and perverse. Readers who like

this sort of thing will find lashings of it in Miss Sitwell's Rustic Elegies (Duckworth. 5s.). Some of it is very funny, but it is only fair to say that some of it is also very good of its kind. "Prelude to a Fairy Tale •' is charming and there are many other passages well worth reading.