26 JUNE 1920, Page 24

Eloquent Swinburnian little poems. If capable of sinking to bathos,

Mr. Childe can also rise above rhetoric.—Through the Upcast Shaft. By Huw Menai. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. net.)—Poems by a working miner which, though perhaps over- praised in the preface, are not without interest.—The Poets in the Nursery. By Charles Powell. (John• Lane. 5s. net.)— Just and witty parodies. They show what would have been the result if Walt Whitman had written " Goosey, Goosey Gander" or Francis Thompson " Hush-a-bye, Baby." Most exhilarating.