11 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 45

REALMS OF GREEN. By Gerald Bull. (Simpkin. 6s. net.)— Wordsworth's

accusation found a target in a thousand heads, and no one dare look at a primrose now without seeing the Universe imposed upon its innocent face. Least of all Mr. Bull. He has a closer knowledge of Nature than the amateur's, but he conceives it his duty to fog his observations with vague thoughts about evolution and morality and the pulsating grandeurs of creation. If he could temper his ornate raptures. he would make an agreeable essayist.