THE CRITERION Edited by T. S. Eliot The October number
of The Criterion (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.), which continues to preserve its supremacy among English literary periodicals, is made exceptionally interesting by the inclUsion of a group of hitherto unpublished poems and extracts taken from the note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poems are early ones written in the years 1864 and 1865, and are of the greatest interest to anyone who has made a study of Hopkins. The proSe extracts are of varying lengths and importance, but the notes on "Poetry and Verse" and the Address based on " The Founda- tion Exercise of the Spiritual Exercises of- St. Ignatius," are substantial and were well worth reprinting.' Other contribu- tions to this number include " The Failure of Amiel," a sensible essay by Mr. 1'. Mansell Jones, a scrappy article on the economic theories of Gesell by Mr. Ezra Pound, and a plea for a religious sense in the novel by Mr. Sean O'Faolain.
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