24 JANUARY 1920, page 14

Poetry.

THE PERSONAL TOUCH. A CUNNING man Tom Fool must be to-day For friends who find his poems in a book To swear : " Tom Fool wrote that; I know his way; Unsigned, yet eyed all over......

Books.

THE PAPACY AND THE WAR.* DANIEL interpreted the word " Tekel," in the writing on the wall that alarmed Belshazzar, as " Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."......

A Younger Son.* Mr. Dzwsn's Autobiography Is A Very...

book. He looks back over his life as a literary man and a student of politics, and recalls his more interesting experiences very much as if ho were conversing with a friend. His......