POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDEEATIOX.—An Anthology of Italian Poems. By Lorna
de Lucchi. (Heinemann. 10s. 6d. net.)—This is an excellent selection of Italian poetry from the 13th century down to Carducci. A verse translation of each poem appears on the page opposite to it. Translations so arranged can be justified for two reasons only, either because they are so verbally accurate that the inexperienced reader can understand the original through them, or because (and this is a rare achievement) they transpose into English the spirit and flavour of the original. To say that Signora de Lucchi sometimes succeeds in combining these methods is to say that she has accomplished much. It is inevitable that there should occasionally be failures too, as in the case of her rendering of Michelangelo's famous quatrain to his statue of Night, which destroys the significance of the original.— White April. "Yale Series of Younger Poets." By Harold VinaL (Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Vinal repeats the old formulas with refreshing economy in his love poems. He has yet to acquire a more workmanlike vocabulary, and he must not be content with being a minor of the minors.—Dreams and a Sword. "Yale Series of Younger Poets." By Medora C. Addison. (Milford. 6s. ficl. net.)—.-A beautiful poem, "Ships," which recalls some of the sea poems in Mr. Vinal's White April, redeems a collection which is more often merely competent.— Fifty New Poems for Children: an Anthology. (Blackwell. 2s. 6d. net.)—Two poems by Mr. Robert Graves, and two by Mies Sitwell, including "Trains," are the chief inducements to ' buy this attractively printed anthology.
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