The Literary Year - Book. Edited by Basil Stewart. (Heath and Cranton.
7s. Gd. net.)—This useful reference-book, now in its twenty. first year, contains mu h information of interest to authors and journal- ists, together with a fairly full directory of writers and illustrators. The editor in his introduction remarks on ".the wonderful revival of poetry which the war has brought about." " More and better poetry is being written, read, and appreciated in England to-day than has been the case for many years. . . . People who formerly had no taste for poetry now read and enjoy it. Much, too, of this poetry has
come, literally, from the trenches. . . Wordsworth and Shelley appear to be read more, while the poems of James Elroy Flecker and Rupert Brooke have had an immense sale." We share Mr. Stewart's hope that when peace comes the new poets and their new readers-will not ittsm to prose again.
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