5 JUNE 1920, page 21

Fiction.

THE UNDERWORLD.• Me. WELSH, the author of The Underworld, is a Lanarkshire coal miner who has worked at every phase of coal-getting since he was twelve years old until his......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review. THE Jerre MONTHLIES.—The Nineteenth Century has a notable article on " Foul Play for the Ex-Service Man "......

Poets And Poetry.

NEW POEMS BY MR. MASEFIELD.• READERS of Mr. Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive will remember how the great artist, who is the hero of the book, makes his • The Underworld : the Story......

Readable Novels.—the Cypress Tree. By Sophie Cole. (mills...

78. 6d. net.)—One of the author's usual delightful stories of London. The Enoch Arden theme, though it has, of course, become almost commonplace during the war, is cleverly......

Poems Worthy Of Consideration.—love O' London. By...

Matthews. Is. fid. net.)—Attreetive little poems in praise of London.—The Kiltartan Poetry Book. By Lady Gregory. (Putnam and Co. 6s. net.)—Translaticn from the Irish. An......