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but I hope they will not write anything after leaving it, but get a job in a machine-shop. They must run a lathe or a milling-machine, and watch some Carlsen caress a tool-steel point and call it "a peach."

William Saphier

NOTES

Mr. Vachel Lindsay, of Springfield, Illinois, whose latest book of verse was The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems (Macmillan Co.-1916), has been at work, during the past year, chiefly on The Golden Book of Springfield, which, as the editor understands it, will be chiefly prose, with poems by way of incidental interludes. China, whose massive weight and persistent strength are expressed in this latest poem, has been a favorite subject of the poet's thought for years a subject suggested perhaps partly by the long residence in China of his sister Mrs. Wakefield, the wife of the distinguished medical missionary.

Miss Zoë Akins, of St. Louis, whom our readers will remember, is the author of Interpretations (Mitchell Kennerley), and of various plays in verse and prose which have been successfully produced by the Washington Square Players and other companies. Since Mark Twain wrote his prose epic Life on the Mississippi, the “Great River" has been too much neglected by the poets of the Middle West, and it is appropriate that its beauty and grandeur should appeal to the imagination of a poet whose life has been spent in the great city which rises at the confluence of the two great streams that flow together to the Gulf.

Marjorie Allen Seiffert (Mrs. Otto S.), of Moline, Illinois, is also familiar to our readers. Her present poems celebrate the beauty of Glacier Park. Mrs. Seiffert, under the pseudonym of Elijah Hay, was one of the three poets represented in the Spectrist Number of Others, the other two being her friend Witter Bynner and her Davenport neighbor Arthur Davison Ficke.

Jean Starr Untermeyer (Mrs. Louis U.), of New York, and Antoinette de Coursey Patterson (Mrs. T. de Hoge P.), of Philadelphia, have also appeared before in POETRY. Also Mr. and Mrs. William Zorach, of New York, of whom the former is better known, perhaps as a painter than a poet.

Of the poets represented in this number for the first time:

Mr. Robert Gilbert Welsh, a New York journalist, is the author of several plays and poems which have appeared in Scribner's, Harper's, the Forum and other magazines. Miss Olive Runner lives in Austin, Minn.; Janet Norris Bangs (Mrs. E. H. B.) in Chicago; Mary Willis Shuey (Mrs. Arthur F. S.) in Tampa, Florida; Pauline B. Barrington (Mrs. Charles B., Jr.) in Santa Barbara, Cal.; and Miss Nancy Byrd Turner is on the staff of the Youth's Companion in Boston.

ORIGINAL VERSE:

BOOKS RECEIVED

Chimes and Humoresques, by Ernest M. Hunt. Privately printed, New York.

Horizons at Dawn and at Dusk, by Colin Tolly. Hodder & Stoughton, London, and Geo. H. Doran Co., New York,

Jevons Block, by Kate Buss. Four Seas Co.

TRANSLATION:

Messines and Other Poems, by Emile Cammaerts. Translations by Tita Brand-Cammaerts. John Lane Co.

PLAY:

The Lost Pleiad—a Fantasy, by Jane Dransfield. James T. White & Co., N. Y.

PROSE:

The Art of Amy Lowell-a Critical Appreciation, by W. Bryher. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London.

Visits to Walt Whitman, by J. Johnston, M. D., and J. W. Wallace. Egmont H. Arens.

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Marguerite Zorach 308
William Zorach 309

Robert Gilbert Welsh 310
Mary Willis Shuey 313

Jean Starr Untermeyer 314
Nancy Byrd Turner 315
Zoë Akins 316

H. M. 320

Max Michelson 325

A. K. 330

John Gould Fletcher 332

More Anthologies, chiefly Topographical. A. C. H & H. M. 337

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