POSTSCRIPT.—As I am correcting my proof comes yet another anthology,
and one of great interest—the Pure Poetry anthology of Mr. George Moore, or rather, of a small literary company. Mr. Moore was the promoter, and he was assisted by Mr. De La Mare and Mr. Freeman. (The Nonesuch Press. 17s. 6d.). It is a most interesting piece of work, but the exact opposite of the personal anthology. The distinguished triumvirate just named take a hard and fast definition of Pure Poetry, " something that the poet creates outside his own personality," and apply it like a guillotine to English verse. The result is a very restricted, conservative. almost conventional Golden Treasury. Everything which can be called reflective or gnomic, or elegiac is ruthlessly cut out, and so we get only works of the highest inspiration. Yet even here I could find many causes for " motions in arrest of judgment." That, however, is quite outside my purposes of to-day, and so I pass by with the merest salute to this distinguished and provocative experiment. J. Si'. L. S.
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