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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 13

An unusual but quite serviceable type of book is the "Shorter Byron," edited bv Ernest Rhys. It brings together in a single volume Byron's best-known poems, his most characteristic letters and sundry interesting passages from Moore's biography. "The Gulls," by Marguerite Few, in the London "Observer": t They come in flood-time, suddenly, from sea, And fill this quiet valley., far inland, " ith echoes of wild and savagery. Thov ride at pleasure o'er the drowning field Xext summers sheep have for their pasture planned Like strange white ships in foreign waters keeled Which enter into harbour, fold their sails, And sink to rest beside an alien strand; While those ashore dream of a voice that hails In unknown language; fierce, dark faces brood I i Above the hatchways, and the decks are manned With forms half seen, and but half understood. 1