THE WORLD'S PILGRIM. By Evil Gore-Booth. (Long:- 8s. 6d.)—The poems
of the late Eva Gore-Booth were distinguished by their individual grace and by a shining- quality that was the outcome certainly of a clear spirituality, A few of her earlier lyrics. touched and made musical by- an. Irish quality, are to be found in the anthologies, but 'heir increasing interest in mystical thought withdrew her from
widening interest. These eight conversations, written in a lovely and pointed prose, range history and are contrasts in epochs of thought. Buddha and Pythagoras, Francis of Assisi and a worldly Brother of his Order, Lorenzo and the Prior of St. Mark's ; the meetings of such are apt, shrewd, and luminous. The poet lacked sympathy with mediaeval thought, but in all these conversations may be heard a secret tone : " the crying of the Inner Voice of the Divine Perfect ion."
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