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PORMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.--Ga8 Trial. By A. H. Mumford. (Erskine

Macdonald. Is. net.)—The verse is amateurish, but the poems are obviously inspired by genuine feeling, which the author is somehow able to transmit to the reader.—An Anthology of Modern Verse. (Methuen. 6e. net.) —James the First of Scotland. By Robert Bain. (Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson. 58. net.)—An interesting drama chiefly in blank verse.—Horizons. By Viola C. White. (Humphrey Milford. 5s. 6d. net.)—Miss White has an insufficient respect for rhythm and her verse is immature, but she is often singularly happy in her epithets. The small beginning perhaps of a real poetic talent 9