THE impervious silence of the Poet Laureate has become such an accepted fact that the younger generation has grown up, on the whole, quite unacquainted with his work, and to them he is probably known less by any of his own poetry than by his great anthology, The Spirit of Man.' In reality, however, Dr. Bridges is one of the few poets of our time who has recaptured the pure classical idea, and anybody who is induced to read him after hearing this talk will be grateful to Mr. Squire for a new conception of the beautiful that he will find he has acquired.