17 MAY 1924, page 31

Mood.

Secrets. By W. H. Davies. (Cape. 3s. ed.) NOTHING is harder to criticize than lyrical poetry. It is the expression of a mood, and any subject or point of view it may have is......

A Book Of The Moment.

THE BURDEN OF A FAMILY. IT is often assumed that the economic arrangement by which the burden of supporting a family of children falls on a single wage-earner is of immemorial......

Books.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. BLAKE was no innocent : behind his most seeming-simple lyric was a whole mass of doctrine and cosmology. " Tyger, tyger " and " Little lamb, who made thee "......