19 DECEMBER 1925, page 21

Our Copy Of Mr. Thomas Hardy's New Volume Of Poems,

Human Shows, Far Fantasies, Songs and Trifles (MacMillan), has now reached us. At the first glance we should say that perhaps half a dozen poems arc among Mr. Hardy's best. The......

This Week's Books

POETRY plays the largest part in this week's publications and especially modern poetry. Mr. L. A. G. Strong's anthology, The Best Poems of 1925 (Boston : Small, Maynard and......

One Of The Most Beautifully Printed Hooks We Have Seen

for some time is the Gregynog Press edition, Poems by henry Vaughan. There is an introduction by Mr. Ernest Rhys, illustrated by clean and pleasant wood-engravings of the......

We Must Catalogue A Few Other Books Of Importance. The

first volume of the History of the Black Watch in the Great War is now published. Prof. W. P. Paterson's Gifford Lectures for 1924 and 1925 are collected in a volume on The......

A Certain Simon Wastell, Scholar Of Queen's College,...

been credited in anthologies with the authorship of a very charming set of verses, of much interest in the history Of poetry ; of much interest because, apparently, they set a......

Christmas Competitions

The Editor offers two prizes of £5 each :- 1. For a new Tale for Children in not more than six hundred words of prose or silty lines of verse : 2. For a netO " BiOgraphy - for......