Darien by H. G. Dixey

BRIEF NOTICES

Knights Errant and Other Poems, by Sister M. Madeleva.

D. Appleton & Co.

Devotional poetry seems to be the most difficult to

write-at least very little of that kind reaches us which

demands more than a glance. But this Holy Cross nun

makes us feel her ecstasy in poems like the title poem,

Travel Song, Possession, Bondage. In these and a few

others her religious feeling is simply and convincingly ex-

pressed.

A Dinner of Herbs, by Nancy Barr Mavity. Thomas

Seltzer.

Some of these poems are in rhyme, and others in broken

lines of alleged free verse. But in neither form does one

feel a personal touch or tune. They are too much the kind

of thing which the popular magazines love to print. This

fragment from Vixero is typical:

But I-I have dared to meet life!

I cast off the mist-woven garments of content,

I left the little bright roads of happy days,

I ran to meet sorrow, laying my heart's joy at her feet.

Darien, by H. G. Dixey. Basil Blackwood, Oxford, ©

England.

Among a good many "'college-exercise" poems and other

academic reminders, one finds now and then in this

volume a lively sea-song of the old-fashioned lilting kind.

For example, Recall.