Beddoes, Christopher Smart, Flecker, Robert Frost, Peace Hopkins and Thomas
Nashe. It is natural that Browning •. 6 Kipling shall be his favourites, and it is With the shock of inter• that one reads that neither Wordsworth nor Tennyson made impression on him. In one respect his anthology may well unique, for he claims that it contains poems he could " rep entire or in great part." Another attractive feature is his annotat t, 2 some of his comments are enlightening and all are interesting. 4 Grace Under Malta. By Sybil Dobbie. (Lindsay Drummond. 7s. 6 THE author of this book is the daughter of General Sir Will 8 Dobbie, and she has written what will probably be the classi' description of life in Malta during the great siege. Not that saw the whole of the siege, for she arrived in Malta from Singa after it had already begun and she left with her father before was over. But she sets down in a sober and interesting way picture of what she actually saw and experienced. Her position the Governor's daughter helped her, although she has been discreet in using the information that must necessarily have c.. to her in her confidential work at Headquarters. Any book a Malta by a member of her family would have been welcomed, Miss Dobbie's success is due to more than her position. obviously has the seeing eye and the understanding mind and ability to write of what she sees and understands in beautif clear prose. Perhaps the outstanding chapter in the book is account of a typical Maltese family, with one son in the Re, Malta Artillery, another a sergeant-interpreter in the Intellig Corps in Egypt, another an apprentice in the dockyard, and youngest a messenger in the Malta Auxiliary Corps. Such a PLC makes real the heroic qualities of the people of the George Island.
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