24 AUGUST 1929, Page 27

Mr. H. R. Pyatt, in Below the Threshold (Basil Blackwell,

2s. 6d.), shows great skill in versifying, and here and there are striking, lines both light and serious. "A gleam of lacquered eyes" shows us his cat, and "Lux in Tenebris " lights up for a second the treasures hidden among sordid memories of hard times : "Horrible railway siding, Where blackness and ashes are

But the ash held a handful of water and that water held a star."

A trifle this, easily overlooked, but not so easily forgotten.

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