26 AUGUST 1922, page 22

Poets And Poetry.

A METRICAL FEAT4 IT has been said that it is very convenient to have won a Victoria Cross. After that. you need no longer scruple to acknow- ledge your fear of a bathe in a cold......

Ourzn Novels.—ths Man Who Could Not See. By Mrs. Fred

Reynolds. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Reynolds's new novel opens with an excellent description of the girlhood of Mara, the plain heroine. Her revolt at the dull conditions......

Futility. * The Reading Of A Book Like Futility Is Something

of an event to the jaded reviewer, for it is compact of the freshness and charm of youth. Yet a delightful sense of humour in its author never allows this youthful gusto to......

Fiction.

filAURICE GUEST.* THERE is no severer handicap to a good book than a prefatory puff by a writer of note : and even Mr. Hugh Walpole's admirably lucid, appreciative, and......

Clan Warfare In The Highlands.

Ma. Dawn N. MACKAY has described in a singularly interesting book, Clan Warfare in the Scottish Highlands (Paisley : Alexander Gardner, 7s. 6d. net), a dozen of the numerous......