17 JUNE 1922, page 21

Poets And Poetry.

MR. EDMUND BLUNDEN'S NEW VERSE.* MR. BLUNDEN is rather a puzzling poet. He seems suddenly to dangle complete excellence before us and never quite to give it us except in an......

Fiction.

ABDICATION.* THERE is more than one way of treating the political novel. There is, for instance, Disraeli's way. There is also Mrs. Humphry Ward's way. But these two methods......

Other Noveis.—helen Vardon's Confession. By R. Austin...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—An unusually circumstantial detective story, in which the chapters that deal with technical subjects as varied as the manufacture of pottery and the......

More Wells.*

IT is difficult at this stage of his career to say anything new about Mr. Wells, especially as he himself has very little new to say. He has become a weathercock who swings to......

Theodore Savage. By Cicely Hamilton. (parsons. 7e. 6d....

always writes forcibly, and her present novel deals with the heartshaking effects of the next war. It might, indeed, be used as a tract to convey an awful warning to all......

Mothers-in-law. By The Baroness Von Hutten. (cassell. 7s....

is another story which, like one noticed re- cently, deals with intimate Italian life. In the present case the girl who is married to an Italian marche.se is an American, not an......