THE SCOTSMAN

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

7 March 1921

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NEW BOOKS.

POETRY.

Swift Wings: Songs in Sussex. 6s. net. Steyning. Vine Press.

In spite of some touches of straining for effect in its production, this slender volume of songs, sonnets, and lyrical pieces by an unnamed author [Victor B. Neuburg] is daintily made, and neatly printed and adorned. The singing, exclamatory and enthusiastic, yet simple and well felt, is about the windmills on the Sussex Hills, the moonlit seascapes that can be looked out on thereaway, the villages in the upland ways, the poet Collins, and the prose man Richard Jeffries. It cannot but please any one who knows Sussex or is ready to respond to the imaginative stimulus of good open air poetry.