6 JANUARY 1923, Page 33

THE LONDON MERCURY.

Mr. Shanks writes at length, and appreciatively, on Mr. Rudyard Kipling, whose work he finds increasingly satis- fying." Prince D. S. Mirsky explains why he regards Emily Bront8 as one of " the very greatest writers of the nineteenth century." Mr. J. C. Squire pays a generous tribute to the memory of Mrs. Meynell. The poetry includes some " Medi- tations in Time of Civil War," by Mr. W. B. Yeats, who seems to view the strife with complete detachment, as too many people do in Southern Ireland.