POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. —Rickard II. By James F. Weight.
(George Allen and Unwin. 2e. 6d. net.) A long play, chiefly remarkable for the really admirable way in which the author has got round the difficulty of writing English which gives mediaeval temporal colour without smelling of Wardour Street. It does not, however, escape all the snares which await writers of blank-verse drama. It falls into one or two pointed out in Mr. Max Beerbohm's " Seven Men." For example :— " If 'tie as true as death It is as deadly . . ."
—The Poems of _Meleager of Gadara. By Richard Aldington. (The Egoist Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—" Worthy of consideration" because of their completeness and of their having been written by Mr. Aldington. The prose is often clumsy and gives a
• Dana znd Band Thaw*. By T. Stow Moore. Loudon: Grant Richards. .ra. net.1
singularly false idea of the felicity of the originals. His translation of " Love at Auction " is very much inferior to that of Mr. 0. T. Campion which we recently published in these columns. Surely English prose is an unsuitable medium for this sort of verse.
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