19 NOVEMBER 1921, page 23

Poets And Poetry.

TWO PLAYS' BY MR. GORDON BOTTOMLEY.• THE first of the two plays in' this- new book of Mr. Gordon I3ottomle is, like his King Lear's- Wi e, an attempt to reconstruct Ohm* and......

Net.)—a Collection Of Professor Beers' Verse. A Section...

to such whimsicalities as the following quotation from "A Fish Story," intended as a warning to a young collegian on the downward path :- " A whale of high porosity, And low......

Thirteen All Told. By Beatrice Harraden. (methuen. 7s....

there is a good deal of charm in the first story of this collection, " The Enchanted House," Miss Harraden can do much better work than she gives us in. some of the other......

Readable Novels.—the Beautiful Years. By Henry...

net.)—A first novel, chiefly memorable for its record of the author's detailed observation of animal life in field and- wood and of natural phenomena in generrit—Nightshade. By......

Romance To The .rescue. By Denis Mackail. (john Murray. 7s.

lid. net.)—It is pleasant to be able to say of a young author that his work improves with every novel he publishes, and this is certainly the case with Mr. Denis Maekail, but,......