7 DECEMBER 1929, Page 49

Mr. Thomas Moult continues in his role of poetry's most

active publicity agent, and we imagine that highbrow and lowbrow alike have by now ceased to ask whether his annual collection of poems rescued from periodicals is worth while. The Best Poems of 1929 (Cape, 6s.) contains work that it would be unpleasant to think of as destined to perish : really shining inspired stuff, not of any fashion. Incidentally Mr. Moult notes a tendency on the general editor's part to give more space to verse than previously. We hope this is not actually just a fluke. But anyhow it is for the public to decide : a good editor will print just as much verse as he thinks the public wants.