Verses. By Maud Holland (Maud Walpole). (Edward Arnold.) —Mrs. Holland
is one of the many people who write verse smoothly and prettily, with a pleasant feeling for the beauty of sea and sky; Lbut occasionally she rises above this level of accomplish- ment. The first poem in her book, " Margaret," is full of spirit. Mrs. Holland has certainly caught the sound of the gallop and the passion of speed. Also there are really fine touches of imagination in "The City of the Sea," a vision of the great nations of the drowned. The influence of Tennyson is strongly apparent everywhere in the book, but nowhere so much as in lines upon Fitzgerald written in Fitzgerald's country and Fitzgerald's quatrain. Here is a pretty verse, too, on one of the " dear dead women "
Lay crimson poppies on her grave to-night, Whose blighted leaves with burning tears are wet : Though Heaven's portals know her not by sight. The earth will not forget I"
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