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Again, as in one or two of the group To My Mother, a feeling delicately tender is set to soft music. Entity perhaps came by wireless, yet I find it not quite unworthy of the

muse:

I am.
And you.
And atoms.
Censure?
Forgiveness?
Why?

I should like to quote America, which rather bravely suggests the big swinging march of a young nation, but I must stop with one more, and that one a portrait, Cézanne:

Our door was shut to the noon-day heat.

We could not see him.

We might not have heard him either-
resting, dozing, dreaming pleasantly.
But his step was tremendous-

are mountains on the march?

He was no man who passed,
but a great faithful horse
dragging a load

up the hill.

H. M.

SOUTHERN SONGS

Plantation Songs and Other Verse, by Ruth McEnery Stuart. D. Appleton & Co.

These are negro dialect songs of the best type, gay, humorous, rollicking and tender, full of sympathy and rioting with color. It is safe to predict that some of these, for their human qualities of mirth and patience, will be chanted and

Southern Songs

loved in nooks and corners of the earth for many a long year. If Mrs. Stuart's place were not already secure this book alone would endear her to the hearts of the people.

Her serious poems, for the most part devotional, are unfortunately not so successful as the plantation songs. The best of these, Sitting Blind by the Sea, is already familiar to readers of POETRY.

But Uncle Remus himself might have written the negro. songs! E. T.

NOTES

Mr. Cloyd Head, author of Grotesques, was born in Illinois in 1886, and has lived for the past fifteen years in suburbs of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University, of Evanston, Illinois.

Mr. Head is an unusually self-exacting artist. He has written poems and plays before the one now published, but, with rare austerity, has destroyed them. He is now engaged upon another poetic play, also symbolic, and also adventurous in its demands upon scenic art.

ORIGINAL VERSE:

BOOKS RECEIVED

The Garden of the Idle Mind, by Isabel Moore. Privately printed. The Roof of the World and Other Poems, by Henry G. Barnett. Sherman, French & Co.

The Little God, by Katharine Howard. Sherman, French & Co. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems, by Duncan Campbell Scott. George H. Doran Co.

Today and Yesterday, by Irving J. A. Miller. The Blakely-Oswald Co., Chicago.

Five Rimes of Five Nations in Time of War, by Allen Updegraff. Printed by the Maverick Press, to be sold for the benefit of Belgium.

Untravelled Trails, by Howard Hilles. Sherman, French & Co. Heart Songs and Home Songs, by Denis A. McCarthy. Little, Brown & Co.

Red Wing, by Frank S. Farquhar. Privately Printed, Planda, Cal.
Life and Living, by Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran_Co.
A Little Book of Verses, by Violet Leigh. Fremad Pub. Co., Eau
Claire, Wis.

Collected Poems, by Arthur Peterson. G. P. Putman's Sons.
Tragedies, by Arthur Symons. The John Lane Co.

Songs of Daddyhood and Other Poems, by Albert Edmund Trombly.

Gorham Press.

There Was a Time, by Anne Murray Larned. Richard G. Badger. Journeys of a Soul, by Nathan Appleton Tefft. The Gorham Press. Random Verse, by F. W. B. The Poet-lore Co.

Law and Love and Other Poems, by E. J. V. Huiginn. The Gorham Press.

The Golden Treshold, by Sarojini Naidu. The John Lane Co. Doreen and The Sentimental Bloke, by C. J. Dennis. John Lane Co. A Place in the Sun, by George William Allison. Riverside Pub. Co., South Bend, Ind.

The Caliph's Secret and Other Verses, by M. A. B. Evans. G. P. Putman's Sons.

PLAYS:

Layla-Majnu: A Musical Play in Three Acts, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco.

SPECIAL EDITIONS, ANTHOLOGIES AND TRANSLATIONS:

The Sonnets of Shakespeare: from the Quarto of 1609 with Variorium Readings and Commentary, Edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden. Houghton Mifflin Co.

The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children, selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. G. P. Putman's Sons.

Heine's Poem, The North Sea, Translated by Howard Mumford Jones. The Open Court Pub. Co., Chicago.

PROSE:

Studies of Contemporary Poets, by Mary C. Sturgeon. Dodd, Mead & Co.

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