5 JANUARY 1918, page 22

Poetry.

THE STRANGER. (1918.) Is shadowy council, see, they sit, The old, old Years that once drew breath, The Years of Pericles and Pitt; Of Pharaoh and Elizabeth, Of Cromwell,......

Recent War Verse.* Mu. Vermede, Who Was In His Fortieth

year when the war broke out, a man of letters, happy in his country home and his garden, enlisted in September, 1914, served in the ranks for a few months,. received a......

Books.

SOME HAWARDEN LETTERS.* This book deserves a more attractive name. To any one whose memory reaches back twenty or thirty years, the mention of letters written to, or from,......

Notice.—when " Correspondence" Or Articles Are Signed...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the......