3 FEBRUARY 1923, page 22

Poets And Poetry.

MR. MASEFIELD'S "SELECTED POEMS."t I Am tempted in considering Mr. Masefield's poems on this occasion to write of him in reference to the interesting and entertaining discussion......

Temperamental Henry. By Samuel Merwin. (allen And Unwin....

net.)—Mr. Merwin misleads us by his title and his publishers by their dust-cover. Actually his. new novel is a careful, urbane and ironic study of an_ erotic American youth,......

Fiction.

THE BRIARY BUSH.* IT is difficult for a contemporary to come to any absolute conclusion about the - merits-of so extremely:topical a book as Mr. Floyd Dell's Briary Bush. The......

The Goddess That Grew Up. By Anthony M. Ludovici....

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ludovici is an agile m tern psychologist, but the loose archaism of his style is u. ost too enveloping a bushel for his talents. This navel is a clever study......