21 AUGUST 1926, Page 17

Mr. Vachel Lindsay's new book Going-to-the-Stars (Appleton. 6s.) shows that

his verse has lost none of its verve. There is a fine virility for those to whom African rhythms are not ana- thema, in this " Curse for the Saxophone" :— "None blil an assassin would enjoy this horn.

Let us think of the Irish flute in the morn. And the songs of Colum and the songs of Yeats, And forget our jazzes and our razzes and our hates. Let us dream slow Romance and the slow great wings Of the good and the great, sweet Irish kings ! "

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