We commend upon its own merits and for the excellent
;goal of any profits—namely, the Belgian Relief Fund—Professor Knight's second collection of poems on war, Pro Patria et liege (Century Press, 2s. 6d. net). Of the older selected pieces all have stood the test of time and need no criticism. Those written sines the war began are carefully chosen, but so long as neither, readers nor perhaps the poets can see the wood for the trees, there is no great profit in trying to apportion merit , that will survive. We will only say that the writers, whether soldiers like Julian Grenfell, or men of peace but of violent .emotions such as Mr. Begbie, or "Katharine Tynan," com- bining delicacy of head and heart, are honest: there is no ;cold-blooded effort to say "the right thing" in calculated verse.
There Is a fair proportion of Amerioan verse, and that which is less than a year old naturally touches us deeply.
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