23 APRIL 1927, Page 19

Anthologies of verse, provided their aim is in some measure

0 give us new lamps for old and not merely to present a laphazard collection of the compiler's favourites, are always %defame, and the late Esme J. Howard's 'Music in the Poets Duckworth, 6s.), a gathering together of poetic fragments

inspired by, or referring to, music, is an attractive book which easily justifies itself. If it is not quite as comprehensive as we could have wished—the section devoted to the " Song of Birds " ignores, for instance, the many delightful poems about owls—it is none the less interesting.