POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.—Shylock RafleOfte with Mr. Chesterton. By Humbert
Wolfe. (Basil Blackwell. 5s.)— A collection of particularly diverse poems with a touch of uncertainty in each. They seem experimental, are often bathetic, but are seldom downright silly, and generally interesting. If Mr. Wolfe settles down and finds a medium to suit him he may write very good poetry some day.—Musings and Menoriee. By Horace Nelson. (Simpkin, Marshall. 3s. 6d.)—This volume contains one pretty poem.—Poems Good, Bad, and Indifferent. By Edith Allen. (C. W. Daniel. 3s. net.)—A collection of mild verse.—Limehouse. By Helen Mitcham. (Erskine Macdonald. 5s.)—Verses by a young poet with a strong ethical strain. The author's danger is that of becoming prosaic, but the first poem in the book is quite hopeful from so young a hand.—A String of Sapphires. By Helen Barry Eden. (Burns, Oates, and Wash- bourne. 10s.)—An attempt to put the Life of Christ into a ballad measure. It is intended " for the young and simple," is written entirely with a devotional object, and from the point of view of an uncompromising type of Roman Catholicism. Mrs. Eden's effort is commendable, however. She has contrived to write for children without being sentimental. She has also included an extraordinary number of facts. Feminism and Roman Catholicism, clearly her " complexes," are not allowed to swamp the narrative. The book is most admirably printed on very pleasing paper.
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