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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

Another clever artist, though of an entirely different type, is Miss Jacynth Parsons, who has illustrated a delightful edition of Mr John Masefield’s “South and East” (The Medici Society. 31/6 and 10/6). Miss Parsons has a wonderful command of colour, and she could not have chosen a better medium for her imaginative style than Mr Masefield’s beautiful legend, which is taken from his “Midsummer Eve.” With the exception of a few favoured poets, such as Mr Humbert Wolfe, the practice of poetry in the present age is rarely a profitable one. How reassuring it is, therefore, to find that the Poet Laureate, Dr. Robert (or “Robbert" as he prefers to have it) Bridges has stepped over the heads of novelists, biographers and children’s authors into select circle of “best-sel-lers.” Published only a few weeks before Christmas, his great work, “The Testament of Beauty,” is already in its sixth impression, and the Oxford University Press is finding it difficult to satisfy this new popular hunger for stiffish verse.