20 NOVEMBER 1926, page 34

The Ascent To Parnassus

IN Mr. Gibson's book are eight hundred pages, twenty years' work of a poet who has received, it is true, quiet acknow- ledgment but no acclamation. And now the reviewer finds......

London—to-day And Yesterday

London. By E. V. Lucas. Illustrated in colour and monotone. (Methuen. 20s.) IF sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things, then present-day Londoners must be removed......

Mauresques

Mn. HAWKES' little book, modest in size but packed full of meat enough to furnish out a very much larger volume, shows a fine sense of historical and geographical imagination......