POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.—Lillygay. (The Vine
Press. 5s.)—The anonymous poems in this anthology are mostly written in time-honoured metres, and they are of a studied and deceptive simplicity reminiscent of the ancient ballades.
" And Oh ! May the fields bo pearly
With dawn and virgin dew, And may my love come early And may my love be true "
might have been written by a minor poet in any age, yet the book in its essence is Georgian in the extreme, and its modernity is all the more startling for its camouflage. The wood-cuts
which illustrate it recall the rhyme-sheets published by the Poetry Bookshop.—Northern Numbers. (T. N. Foulis. 6s.)
—A kind of Georgian Book of Scottish Poets, containing an interesting early poem by Mr. John Buchan in the style of
Flecker, though written, before Flecker's time. A short poem by Mr. Roderick Watson Kerr called " The Grave-digger " is
lugubriously powerful. The rest are not remarkable.
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