17 JULY 1909, page 17

Books.

A NEW POET.f A CENTURY ago, when older conventions ruled in poetry, the poet of a new land prided himself on counting kin with the past. He wrote of the desert or the prairie......

Poetry.

A DEAD DOG. HE was no hound of fine heroic mould, A martyred Gelert grim and bold, A waiting Argus wistful at the knee Of pale Penelope, Such as for ever stays the marble feet......