11 JULY 1914, page 19

Recent Verse *

Miss ROSE MACAULAY in her slim book of verses, The Two Blind Countries,' seeks a different prize from most poets. It is magic that she would capture-not the common magic of......

The English Peasant.*

THE accepted estimate of the position of the English peasant as compared with a century ago has greatly changed within recent years. He was formerly assumed to have profited to......