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LAND & WATFR 
Books to Read 
By Lucian Oldershan 
M;n- UK i<ii; 
].. Woods-" in hat l^^''^^ iL tl^n SinK of poetry 
behind u'i into the ^ulf of ^'^^^ J,.,'^:^";^''-^'"^,, in the later 
was already ccasnig to be .^"f/.^^^.^^.^j ,bv. Now we 
Nineteenth Century, as a ^''f^'^^'-X .f'"™ l" filing birds.' 
can sav that Kngland is agaui u ne^t o -^ng'^f> ,,^,^ 
i'oetrv'is once more felt to be '"^/"^'''Xh escape the 
way of expressing emotions and ideas wmcn i 
mesh of bare words." 
Mr.. Woo*, hcrldf a'poct '» of [<'!;»«;\™';«',|',!:'",^|ra' 
ntrodues to »> four younger poetesse. 1 V*^'^" '^. '" ' ..,^t a 
single poem in .t ^'•^'^»%«f\),%Sir which is full of the 
;-ssrt;;>:ror«^"^| s^s^sss;^ 
rctr;S'r;r.;::i^T,'a-rr..'*S';e..on„r 
natural emotion. _^ , , » * 
The hunter and Ihe ^o^ier also writes ^^^^^^^^^^ 
No new ^^l«me of ^^^^^ ^^ fj^d^^^r 5 b" to which 
The Poetm o «''»«», •«'''"''"^.(J^''",„,'^'unt of the gallant 
Miss M. P. Willcock'scomnbutes an account ot the g^ 
voung author s life and death^ AU ^ho have Deen ^^^._^^^ 
-in rist Africa knew Bmn Brook- , T«^tJ-^i^„ ,;„p,rds 
Brooke was Korongo, the Big Man %n no recognised, 
^vith a spear, and whose honesty ^^^J ^^"J.'^g^Vi^'^.e was ' the 
white man as he was ; .^;hile o tl^e Egeam 
Boy.' as full of jesting gaiety of the dare deNU t>pe a ^^^^^ 
which is pitiless to the P^^-Pf rat«rs «i crue'^^^^ 
r.,hting in ^l^^^t^^iZ^^^^^^ -n- ^P*"^ 
received on the hr^t aay oi ur - . , u-\a\^^,^i sense 
c,f the wanderer and of the «P"rtsnan J ^^^J^^^^ i,„t 
of that much misused word, are leflected in these u sf, 
moving poem 
<•' • , /n H RHrkwell ''s. dd. net), is 
His book, .Sones on Service (B. H. lilacKwui, - . 
dedicated to Mr. Lloyd (.eorge : 
Because you love our own dear mountainland 
Because, in (act. (this is the cliief '' iy^^^(^." 
The soul ami inspiration of the poet. 
Itis mftTbook to pass unnoticed among the mas^ -f ,. .cut 
\\:ir-1iiic1r\". 
* * * * ., , 
I wiiii-imc's rhvmes may lie described as 
" occasional verse of the war. ' " " , vveturn witli 
in the most ,>olisli«^ T^^^^r^c^ ol,^ Ver^C 
delight ulantunpa^mo » ^.^j/^,^ ,,, ,). When 
::L"hi;knri Alitor of ^^ij^^^tS'^i^:^ 
--f^i^irsiirsM^^^ 
5^? Sl^^^'I^Sr'i BeliSwimenting, as a. 
■■ tn^rSrder." V/,. J^y--^// i^'g^'j^Lf S^^u. The 
Tolal I^rohibiHon o Adjectives by ^'^^ Press mrea 
chtl-poems of this vohime Part^ctikry To ^^^\;\^ 
S:^^ ^:^ :r?S ^^ rKar^ntuMor of our 
Times ' I quote this stanza from it . 
\ firkle Patron and a lalse Ally .,. . . 
to V>Sv"l his McMic an<l proctamnl 1,» trccJ. 
TiirninK tioblesie Mhe- into n CloKe 
^ A * 
" ^"^'^'^ ''^'^ . • , , . .,,. ■■ don't know what orders mean 
^We^{'Z'l\^ot just quite-well, he's not ourtc right. 
Oh i daresay he may liave the guts to flght, 
}iut he's only a Volunteer. 
Bullets, like hail, were raining, dowti on I^nRJj'^ sjde ■ 
In a volunt'ry sort ol way. _ 
iS'^Le;;^rSot;:£eSv«£ 
For now I am off on the warpath trail and the sky in the front 
For Thtrliie song of the winds that wail, and I know that 
The iiL^^^uTunt'anHthe jackal l^rk. and the .ebra will 
The SwiUp-S^n the lonely dark and Korongo will not 
Dear^ot'her, who made my childhood sweet, mourn not for 
In tr:L:;^^'^tin;; we wm surdy meet : till then, dear 
Mother, good-bye. 
Let us turn from verse to li^n^,^^ ij-^nt^o^ 
of an accomplished guide showing ;i^ '^J^'^.^jl^ ^ describe 
of the ago. For in ^"-^^ wise one can man y^^^^^^^ 
Tifentieth Century Fyame, hy ^J. ^^*';^";, ■■ ,ay- the autho.-, 
and Hall, los. b<l. net.) I ^h Inix^S its ashes after the 
•• is shown France rising as a ^Jf™ trom us ^^^^^^^^ 
turmoil and disruption "VK%f "f 1 novvledge and sympathy 
lulwards is well equipped ^«th ii kn vvledge an > ,^^^^^ 
to interpret modern 1; ranee to Fn, is ^^^f^^ inlelkcUi^l 
l.-rance neither as a f^^^'f/^^^'^^^'l-fnC normal iiabit 
but as an adopted daughtei, ^ecmg her ^ "^r ^^ 
.,( life. Her book is «'f «!"";, ^1,^ "he is ta"^'"« ""^ 
revelation, charm and '"Merest, whetheTS^iei. b 
French colonial expansion '", Northern Africa, otsiu y 
acliievements as 1^^^"^ teter s Dictionai^y or^^u'^^^^^^^^^ 
of the Revolution, of the triumphs of tlu^remimst ^^^ 
or of the characteristics of Jacques ^onhommf_ ^^ 
perhaps a book for those who '^^^'"J" ^^"^.^^rprctensions 
the averge P:nglishman or woman with no sucn i 
it will have much value and delight. 
There is some ^^7^^-^ ^f J^,!^ 
'^^, Ti!: uS's y ou£ Z:iL Kknglish fa^y. 
?harsirSg:;SpubH^^^^ 
during the war, and is f"''l^f is \h"/Sor's experiment 
,onventional beliefs. 1 do not fi"d the^auUiOT^ \ ^^^^^ 
in realism so attractive as '"^""^f "^ic work, ^^^ ,^^^^^^^^_ 
bis book wih unflagging /"te":f . ^"^^^^j ^^tl e publisher of 
conclusion to tlie proi^lems which he raises. 
