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These three volumes are the work of Margaret George, who

died at the age of twenty-four in 1922. The volume of poems contains work done between the ages of four and twenty-four. Some of the earliest poems are of extraordinary quality for a small child, and everywhere we notice phrases and epithets which are real and impressive. Yorick, a dramatic poem which is one of her last works, shows her strongly under the influence of Shakespearean phraseology, but there is originality there, strong feeling for rhythm and phrase, and many striking passages. The third volume contains two fairy stories. That these volumes show a very considerable promise there can be no doubt, but it is impossible to guess what this young writer's final achievement would have been had she lived.