Cambridge Review

Cambridge, England

18 June 1908

(page 463)

List of Books Received

A Green Garland by Victor B. Neuburg.

The author has not yet sufficiently assimilated all the poetry he has read. His style, generally quite promising, has occasional infelicities; and the thoughts and emotions seem to come from outside rather than from within. Mr. Neuburg must strive towards sincerity—that is, he must beware of gaining the whole of modern emotions and losing his own soul; he must fast and study metre all the day; and he must abandon his agnosticism and pray without ceasing to Apollo, a difficult God. So, at length, perhaps the real flame will come.