5 MARCH 1927, Page 33

This Week's Books

CEnALD GOULD, is better known—and in our opinion much more readable—as a critic than as a poet, but in his precious— indeed overpriced—little volume of new poems, Beauty the Pilgrim (Berm, 3s. 6d.) there are one or two good things, notably, " The Mountain Eagle," a longish poem whose theme is the splendour and sorrow of love, and one or two incidental descriptions, such as the seagull's death in " Compensation "

lle flew, and was in pain, And his heart broke."

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