THE JOY OF LIFE. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. In
this book Mr. Lucas has made a pleasant little anthology of verse and given it a title which, translated into a more readily understood language, means " Some Cheerful Poems that Appeal to Me." The book is divided into seetionS-- " England," " Birds," " The Sea," and so on, but apart from this there seems to be no special reason why one poem was chosen and another left : one imagines, for instance, that " The Garden " might have been much more " joyfully " re- presented, and there is here one particularly juvenile effOrt in the pseudo-Rupert Brooke manner which should never have been included. However, we are not complaining of the book : on the whole it is a sparkling little volume, and should make an excellent Christmas gift to pessimists.
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