3 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 25

THE LONDON MERCURY.

Mr. Thomas Hardy contributes a characteristic poem "On the Portrait of a Woman about to be Hanged,' and Mr. Arthur Waley a version of a remarkable first-century Chinese poem, "The Bones of Chuang Tzu." Lady Grey writes well on the poetic experiments of William Barnes, with plenty of good quotations. Miss I. A. Williams prints some new letters of Samuel Richardson, the novelist ; and Mr. Archibald Marshall has a short story, which reads like a fragment of a longer book.