27 JANUARY 1923, page 22

The Alphabet.*

TEE author of The Alphabet should really need no introduction to those who care for good lettering. If they have not known to whom they were indebted for their pleasure in the......

Poets And Poetry.

OXFORD POETRY, 1922.t PERSONALLY, I liked Oxford Poetry much better this year. It seemed to me this time to fulfil its proper function of pro- viding a vehicle for the poems of......

Two Books By Miss Maude Royden.* In His Essay On

Ranke's history of the Popes Macaulay con- trasts the resourcefulness and Versatility Of the Roman with the curious woodenness of the Anglidan Church. He instances their......

Fiction.

KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS.* IT is commendable in Mr. Belloc that twenty years ago he discovered how good The Wallet of Kai Lung is ; and now, in gratitude, he has dashed off a......