14 JULY 1917, Page 16

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

Ototits in ai.1 column Son net necusarily preecide satawarat In Memoriam A. H. By Maurice Baring. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. Is. net.)—This dignified and touching elegy on the late Auhorou Herbert. Lord Lucas, who was killed in an air-fight, is one of the best poems that the war has produced. Of its fine quality here is an example

" You had died fighting, fighting against odds, Such as in war the gods Aetheroal dared when all the world was young ; Such fighting as blind Homer never sung, Nor Hector nor Achilles never knew, • • High in the empty blue, High, high, above the clouds, against the setting sun The fight was fought, and your great task was done."