2 FEBRUARY 1940, Page 26

Edith Sitwell's Anthology. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) THIS is an agreeable

collection' which strikes an excellent balance between the familiar and the little known, and includes a delightful selection of light verse, ballads and children's rhymes ; it has also a curious section devoted to French vers4 represented only by Villon and the Symbolists. The and* logy is prefaced by notes, in which Miss Sitwell puts fonvos4 once more her very personal theories about vowels and co' sonants and indulges in coy references to "a great poet of a time," whom she declines to name, but asserts—with quo!, lions to prove her point—to be the equal in some respects. Marlowe ; the "great poet," it is perhaps unnecessary to saY, Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell.