5 JUNE 1926, Page 19

The recent issues of Messrs. Benn's Augustan Books of Modern

Poetry at ls. each are Humbert Wolfe, Edith Sitwell, Alice Meynell, Thomas Campion, Lawrence Binyon and Bret Haste. Two hundred thousand copies of this series were sold in the first six months—yet it is still said that the public won't read poetry.