1 APRIL 1922, Page 22

POEMS WORTHY Or CONSIDERATION. —Alma Venus. By Bernard O'Dowd. (Lothian

Book Publishing Co., Melbourne. To be obtained at the British Australasian Co., London. 2s. 6d.) The long title- poem shows some striking lines. Its sense reminds the reader of Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage and its manner of some of Tennyson's narrative verse. A little more resourcefulness might have made a very good poem of it ; as it staade. it is interesting but unequal.