Books: Sister Singers

WINE FROM THESE GRAPES—Edna St. Vincent Millay—Harper ($2).

NOT MINE TO FINISH—Genevieve Taggard—Harper ($2).

Sappho was thought unladylike not so much because of her personal habits as because of the poetry she wrote. But Sappho has many a sister in these westering years. Since poets generally discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some of them have gone to the head, or near it, of their respective specialties. Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote...