25 JULY 1925, Page 38

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

THE Cuala Press have sent us a copy of their latest book The Bounty of Sweden : A Meditation and a Lecture, delivered by W. B. Yeats. Mr. Yeats seems to have turned his mind to a mood of gentle garrulity and to have allowed this mood to carry him without restraint through the country of his memory. No particular subjects are touched upon, but -there is a quiet drip of thought and meditation. Strindberg, Swedenborg, Ibsen, the Town Hall of Stockholm, the Peniyl- vania Terminus of New York, are evoked, form unsubstantially, and vanish ; we are left with an agreeable feeling of unreality

and vagueness.