THE LONDON MERCURY.
The most important item in the new London Mercury is a series of eight poems by Mr. Ivor Gurney. Their sometimes unusual syntax, together with a rough-hewn directness of expression, make them, at first sight, somewhat difficult ; but their sharply visual quality and forceful originality of outlook are of the very substance of poetry. Mr. J. C. Stobart writes with humanity and common sense on the subject of Taste. The text of his argument is : " Taste ? Never mind about taste, so long as you can get appetite." Mr. Squire prints the second of his ingenious Grub Street Nights" stories, and there is a delightful article—" The Lives of the Obscure "- by that always delightful writer, Mrs. Virginia Woolf, cele- brating the charm of obscure memoirs, such as those of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, published in Dublin in 1770.
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