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Oxford and Poetry in 1911. By Herbert Warren, D.C.?, (The

Clarendon Press. la. net.)—Here we have Professor Warren's Inaugural Lecture. He brings under- review some of his prede- cessors in. the Chair of Poetry ; he discusses what we may call the academical side of his subieet; "it is the business of Oxford to eriticise, not to create ; to prepare, not to practise'—he has himself found time to create and practise something—and he hints at the line which he is himself thinking of following. Altogether this is an excellent bit of work. Professor Warren is nut too definite, but he is hopettl and suggestive.