21 MAY 1921, page 23

The No Plays Of Japan.* We Who Love The Theatre

know that the time is ripe for the revival of poetical drama. At the moment the difficulty seems to be to hit upon a form in which we may crystallize our impulse. For our poetic......

The Green Bough. By E. Temple Thurston. (cassell. 8s. 6d.

net.)—A remarkable book entirely concerned with the passion of maternity. The heroine, Mary Throgmorton, insists on bearing a child to the hero who is a married man. As she......

Rbadable Novels.—the Twenty-six Clues. By Isabel...

8s. 6d. net.)—A first-rate detective story. The multiplicity of clues and the rivalries of , the investigators are so ingeniously handled that the reader is kept thoroughly......

Fiction.

'.1.11.E. ROUGH CROSSING.* Ix the narrower sense of the word Miss Thompson has not written a novel. In this she has shown her good sense, and here lies the defence of her book.......

Poets And Poetry.

" JOHNNY APPLESEED." ON another page we publish a new and in every sense memorable poem by Mr. Vachel Lindsay, the American poet. We have already endeavoured to appraise his......