POEMS WORTHY OF CoNsinF,BATrox.--autlaws. By Nancy Cunard. (Elkin Mathews. 5s.)—After
reading these verses one is left with an unpleasing suspicion that if poetry were not quite so much the fashion they might not have been written. The best are efficient but laboured metrical exercises, and the rest are complacently unconventional, unredeemed by real emotion or sincerity, but well expressed. " The Knave of Spades " is eleven—Passions. By Russell Green. (Holden and Hardingham. 2s. 6d.)—These verses are pretentious and often seem an admixture of Aldous Huxley and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. " Lament " rises to a higher level than most, and the fourth stanza is almost Elizabethan. The author is at his best when least passionate.—Unfinished Poems. By Elizabeth Paul. (A. C. Fffield. 3s.)—The posthumous verse of one who seems to have possessed an analytical mind, a keen appre- ciation of beauty, a taste for metaphysics, and an intense sensi- bility, but whose medium one feels was not really verse.
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