3 OCTOBER 1925, Page 31

Some of the ingenious satires in Mr. Humbert Wolfe's new

book, Lampoons (Benn's), are familiar to readers of the Spectator. The whole book is delightful in its deftness and grace. Mr. Wolfe in the preface pleads for savagery and anger in verse, but we have strong suspicions that in truth Mr.

Wolfe is a lamb. * *