7 AUGUST 1920, page 23

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revietvj THE AUGUST Maw zneEs.—The Nineteenth Century gives first place to Colonel G. B. Hurst, who answers with......

Poets And Poetry.

SIGNPOSTS ON THE PRIMROSE PATH.* THE careful study of a certain amount of thoroughly bad poetry is necessary to the budding poe as well as o the critic. It is often in......

Don Folquet And Other Poems. By Thomas Walsh. (john Lane.

7s. 6d. net.)—Otherworki. Cadences by F. S. Flint. (The Poetry Bookshop. 5s. net)—Interesting, but, as Tolstoy would have said, "too bookish."—Th,e Tempering. By Howard Buck.......

Fiction.

BEAUTY AND BANDS.* THE combination of qualities with which Viola Chalfont, the heroine of Mrs. Felkin's new novel, was endowed reminds one somewhat of the epitaph which......

The Lite.e. Soul. By Elinor Mordamit. (hutchinson. 8s....

interesting psychological study, the subject of which is the character of the hero, Charles Hovland, whose self- absorption never varies through good and evil fortune. The......