Poises Wonurr OF CONSIDERATION.—England in the Eighteenth
written in rhymed couplets and printed in a way that recalls books of the period. Mr. Christie writes with discrimination of the Church, politics and manners. Perhaps he gets nearest to the spirit of the age in his essay on the watering-places and pleasure gardens:- " Now can fair Zephalinda say good-bye To Town, without a retrospective sigh ; No more to croaking rooks and pious aunts Fair Zephalinda goes—she goes on jaunts, Merely exchanges London's sounds and sights For equal and competitive delights."
Though never achieving poetry, Mr. Christie's verse has always
a kind of frozen dignity.—The Great Hope and Other Poems. By Herbert Sleigh. (Stratford-on-Avon : at the Shakespeare
Head.)—The Shakespeare Head Press bestow distinction upon any book that passes through their hands. This volume of quiet reflective verse by Mr. Herbert Sleigh is therefore more to be commended than many a work of equal merit.—Poems. By Clive Bell. (The Hogarth Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bell's complete poetical works, a slender volume of seventeen poems,
• Seeds of Time. By John Drinkwater. London : B!dgwlck and Jackson. [Os. eel. net.]
have a refinement and charm often lacking in the work of an amateur. True, he has not " Obtained the chariot for a day And set the world on fire," but his incursions into the realm of poetry well merit attention. —Phaedra and Other Poems. By L. Holdsworth Allen. (Erskine Macdonald. 5s. net.)—Many influences have gone to make this book of verse without entirely swamping the author's individuality. Mr. Allen has the common fault of most Australian poets, in that he is unable to free himself from conventional diction.
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