Foams WORTHY CIF CONSIDERATION.--Ship3 and Polka, By C. Fox Smith.
(Elkin Mathews. 6s. net.)—Many of these verses and 'shanties might have been written by Maaefield. Miss Fox Smith has a feeling for the sea and mastery of its language unusual in a woman. The level reached by these poems is unusually high both in imagination and technique. One of the moat attractive is called "Memories."—Oxford Poetry, 1920. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 2s. 644—Oxford Poetry is like a lucky bag—it may contain anything. Mr. Roy Campbell, of Merton, contributes an amusing poem called "The Porpoise," while his " Bongwi's Theology "shows that the Setebos philosophy has still its believers. Mr. Rickwood's (Pembroke) "Advice to a Girl from the Wars" has the pathos only achieved by intense simplicity.—Sonnets. By Eric Dickinson. (Same publisher and, price.)—This volume of verse is reminiscent of the "Sonnets to Proteous." Mr. Dickinson should try to conquer his habit of writing phrases that mean nothing, such as :— "The woman's soul of you I cams to love
With infinite power beyond the gates of sin, Or ribaldry of passion's scarlet grove."
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