21 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 20

The Casanova Society publishes a new translation of the works

of Charles Baudelaire, by Mr. Arthur Symons. The Best Poems of 1924, selected by Mr. Thomas Moult, is sent to us by Messrs. Cape. Something seems to have discouraged our younger pticts in the past year ; there is none of the free and abundant lyricism that marked the few years -after the Armistice, and no new names arc on the lips of the most erudite in contemporary verse. It may be, as Mr. Moult suggests, merely that several of the journals which gave space to newer writers have abandoned publication ; but that in itself suggests some loss in poetic ardour