POEMS WORMY or CONSIDERATIox.—The Rubaiyat of Omar, M.P. By W.
Hodgson Burnet. (W. Collins and Co. 3s. 6d.)— A quite amusing parody of which the following•is typical :—
" And David's lips are lockt ; but with its great High-piping Maily-voice of ' Hate ! Hate ! Hate ! Black Hate ! '—The Northcliffe cries to the Man Whom 'tis its one desire to exterminate.
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Come take. your Seat and in the fire of Spring
The Remnants of your solemn Pledges fling, Tho Bird of Time is there and anyway You're bound some day to ' get the Bird,' old Thine."
The illustrations, in which Lord Northcliffe figures as a fiery dragon, add very much to the success of a pleasant whole.— A Cycle of Sonnets. By George Mallam. (Basil Blackwell.)
—The Australian Poetry Annual, 1921. (Melbourne Literary Club.)—The anthology shows an improvement upon last year's issue. " Plunder," by Furnley Maurice, and " Curios of China Town," by Frederick T. Maeartney, are among the most promising poems.
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