The Best of Both Worlds. Poems of Spirit and Sense
by Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell. (Allen and Unwin. as. net.)— In this attractive little book Mr. Francis Meynell has put together a selection from the poems of Vaughan and Marvell, which will doubtless find some new readers for those delightful authors. There is not in English elegiac poetry anything more touching or con- soling than Vaughan's poem beginning :-
' They are all gone into the world of light !
And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my clad thoughts doth clear."
And Marvell's " The Garden " is the very perfection of lighter verse, with its little affectations and its hints at deeper things in the mind that " creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade."
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