17 NOVEMBER 1923, page 36

Poets And Poetry.

A TRAGIC COMPLEX.* THE appearance last year of Mr. Arlington Robinson's Collected Poems meant for many English readers the discovery of a new and singularly distinctive poet. At......

His Children's Children. By Arthur Train. (nash And...

6d. net.) This very striking American novel deals with post-War New York and gives a rather appalling account of its social conditions. Certainly, if American fiction is to be......

Fiction.

TOLD BY AN IDIOT.* WHAT a partner the author of Told by an Idiot would have made for Voltaire, thinks the reader as he turns over the pages. Just as the ogress in the fairy tale......

Blindness Of Heart. By Violet Colquhoun Bell. (jonathan...

6d. net.) This novel is so very nearly extremely successful that its faults cannot but be a source of irritation to the reader. For instance, the author writes with a certain......

A German Novel.*

IT is difficult to tell, without knowledge of the original, whether the translation has impaired or enhanced the effect of Gerhart Hauptmann's novel, The Heretic of Soana. An......