13 JANUARY 1933, page 24

The First Two Hundred Years Of American Poetry

American Poetry from the Beginning to Walt Whitman,' Edited by Louis Untermeyer. (Jonathan Cape. 19s.) THERE are three books into which Americans have gathered the best of......

Antarctica The Conquest Of The South Pole. By J. Gordon

Hayet. (Thornton Butterworth. 18s.) AFTER one's first excited admiration of the feats of heroism and endurance performed in the Antarctic has given place to acceptance of the......