THE MONTH

London, England

January 1909

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Short Notices.

The anonymous author of Amphora (Burns and Oates, 2s. 6d. net.), is happily not under the common delusion that abundance of piety can atone for all other deficiencies in religious poetry. We have not met for a long time so lofty and sustained a poetic flight as in this series of verses in honour of our Lady. The thought is not overloaded with verbiage but expressed with simple dignity; as in the best architecture, what is ornamental is useful as well. We commend this little volume to all lovers of our Lady and of good poetry.