23 APRIL 1921, page 23

Poets And Poetry.

THE RUINED BARN.* Tun greater part of " The Ruined Barn," the name poem of Mr. Fisher's collection, has already appeared in our columns, and our readers have had an opportunity......

The English Language.?

Tux Americans have done a great deal for the enrichment of the English tongue. Both in England and America there are, • Jams in the &valence of Men. By T. B. Glover. MA., LL.D.......

Readable Novzrs.—relsaae. By Rosamond Napier. (methuen....

Ireland and India. The descriptions of the cold weather camp of the District Officer, and especially of his inspection of the herd of elephants dragging timber, are much more......

The Happy Highways. By Ste M Jameson. (heinem Nn. 9s.

net.)—The highways into which Miss Jameson's book leads our feet are anything but happy. She has painted with a good deal of power the restlessness, or, to use a medical term,......

Fiction.

Hunger. By Sant Hamann. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d. net.)— For once a title may be said to be entirely representative of the contents of • book. This autobiography of a journalist in......

Dodo Wonders. By E. F. Benson. (hutchinson. Ss. 6d....

has of course by this time become a symbol of the particular type of the eternal and flamboyant female who we have the beet of reasons for knowing has flourished ever since the......