FIRST IMPRESSION JANUARY 1921
MICE
& OTHER POEMS
by Gerald Bullett
Perkin Warbeck
9 Market Hill
Cambridge
Uniform with this volume
HOME-MADE VERSES
By D. B. HASELER AND
R. H. D'ELBOUX
LAUGHING GAS AND
OTHER POEMS
By MARGUERITE FEW
GERALD BULLETT
IS THE AUTHOR OF
THE PROGRESS OF KAY
PUBLISHED BY
CONSTABLE & CO. LONDON
NOTE
IF the mental attitude of any critic has ever, in his approach to a first book of verse, been conciliated by an appreciative notice from some older pen, I should say (speaking out of no little experience) that either the author was dead and the fact advertised in the preface, or, alternatively, that the critic was possessed by a gentler spirit than mine. I am sure at any rate that artistic work, great or small, should be sternly judged on what it is rather than on what it promises. The late J. Comyns Carr, in the days when he wrote dramatic criticism, let loose this restive truth in a couple of short sentences—'We are told that So-and-so is a promising young actor. Personally I don't care how much he promises so long as he never again performs.'