POEM WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.—Orchard and Vineyard. By Miss V. Sackville-West.
(Lane. 6s. net.)—Miss Sackville- West has interesting thoughts, but she does not make very good poems out of them. Though obviously the work of a person of brains, there is nothing in Orchard and Vineyard that will make her readers consider Miss Sackville-West as a poet instead of a novelist. —Selected Verse. By Alfred Noyes. (Blackwood. 5s. net.)—Mr. Noyes' admirers will welcome his new volume. There is a long poem on the death of Marlowe called " The Sign of the Golden Shoe." It displays Mr. Noyes' rather trying insensitiveness to the niceties of word and metre. Some of the poems are brought on from other volumes, for example, " The Man that was a Multitude."—A Book of Women's Verse. Edited by J. C. Squire. (Milford. 7s. 6d. net.)—An anthology with an amusing preface by Mr. Squire. Some of the omissions are both remarkable and unfortunate. For example, neither of the two best living women poets is represented—Miss Charlotte Mew and Miss Edith Sitwell.
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