24 OCTOBER 1925, Page 42

WITH this collection we have the fifth volume of Public

School Verse, containing twenty-nine poems by seventeen young authors. In every way it compares favourably with the volumes previously published. The verse of Mr. A. C. Frost contains a faint echo of Elroy Flecker, and at times there is an attempt made to assume the tone of the formal ode ; but generally speaking these poets have individual points of view—after all, a considerable virtue in days when so many poets seek to imitate and make themselves an echo of greater minds.