Home Rule sing the local songs." Properly distributed, he says, there is room for a hundred poets, one for each million inhabitants. This is a good deal like the dream of the proper distribution of wealth, but it is a good dream nevertheless. Meantime, however, I wish we could count on an audience of one million for a hundred poets, whether they are "snuggling in imitation Latin quarters" or planted out in the western cornfields. I wish we could boast that much. A. C. H. CORRESPONDENCE A WORD FROM DR. GORDON Dear POETRY: A propos of your aboriginal number, don't you think the red man will be a motive of ever increasing importance in American art? Undoubtedly some day we shall have a truly American music, painting, and literature; and who shall doubt that the red man will infuse his genius into it? I believe in both the rise and fall of man. Primitive races, not having fallen so low as is possible under civilization, may be nearer to art, closer to the universal creative spirit, than we. The greatest discoveries in biology have been made from a study of the lowly forms of life. The Indian instinctively appreciates color, line, rhythm and tone, which constitute the alphabet of art. May I offer a few notes, which should have been printed last month to explain certain phrases in my poems? South Star Trail means the Milky Way, which is the path of departed spirits. Tirawa is the Great Spirit, the deity. NOTES Miss Helen Hoyt, born in Connecticut, and a resident of Chicago until her recent removal to Appleton, Wis., has been represented often in POETRY, as well as in Others, The Egoist, and other magazines. She received one of the two prizes awarded for lyric poems a year ago by The Trimmed Lamp. Mr. Orrick Johns, of St. Louis, has also contributed frequently to the special magazines, and in 1912 he won the first prize in the Lyric Year contest. His first book, Asphalt and Other Poems, will soon be published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Mr. Joyce Kilmer, one of the editors of the Literary Digest and the New York Times, and author of Trees and Other Poems (Geo. H. Doran Co.), is also on the point of publishing a new volume, Main Street and Other Poems. Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer is now with the British army in France. His Collected Works were issued in 1914 by Max Goschen, London, and Antwerp last year by the Poetry Bookshop. His On Heaven, published exclusively in POETRY (June, 1914), is one of the finest poems we have had the honor of printing thus far. Mrs. Hueffer has appeared in POETRY and elsewhere, but has not yet published a volume. Mr. Max Michelson, of Chicago, has appeared in POETRY, Others, The Egoist, etc., but has not yet published a volume. Miss Amy Lowell's Lacquer Prints will be included in the third (1917) annual issue of Some Imagist Poets, soon to be published by the Houghton-Mifflin Co. Miss Lowell wishes to express her indebtedness to Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke, for his prose translation of Streets, by Yakura Sanjin, which appeared in his Chats on Japanese Prints. The other poems in Miss Lowell's series are not translations, but original interpretations. The only poet new to our readers, Mr. Odell Shepard, of New York, will soon publish, through the Houghton-Mifflin Co., his first book of verse. BOOKS RECEIVED ORIGINAL VERSE: The Little Golden Fountain, by Mary MacMillan. Stewart & Kidd Co., Cincinnati, O. Castles in Spain, by Albert Fear Leffingwell. Privately printed. Mothers and Men, by Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer. HoughtonMifflin Co. Retrogression and Other Poems, by William Watson. John Lane Co. An Icelandic Poem, by Matthias Jochumsson. Oxford Univ. Press. Lines Long and Short, by Henry B. Fuller. Houghton-Mifflin Co. Second Once Over Book, by Rex H. Lampman. Privately printed. A Woman Free and Other Poems, by Ruth. J. F. Rowny Press, Los Angeles, Cal. The Hour of Sunset: Poems, by Paulina Brandreth. Privately printed. Songs of Childhood, by Walter de la Mare. Longmans, Green & Co., London. Op. I., by Dorothy L. Sayers. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. ANTHOLOGIES, TRANSLATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS: Oxford Poetry 1916. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. The Old Wives' Tale, by George Peele. Edited by Frank W. Cady. Richard G. Badger. A Standard Book of Verse, printed for the English Club of Stanford Univ. Wheels: An Anthology of Verse. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916, by William Stanley Braithwaite. Laurence J. Gomme. Armenian Poems, rendered into English verse by Alice Stone Blackwell. Robert Chambers, Boston. PROSE: Art and the People, by Otto H. Kahn. New York City Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration Committee. The Rhythm of Prose, by William Morrison Patterson, Ph. D. Columbia Univ. Press. Studies in Milton and An Essay on Poetry, by Alden Sampson. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce. B. W. Huebsch. Glimpses from Agnes Mathilda Wergeland's Life, by Maren Michelet. Privately printed. THE CAUSE OF LITERATURE is served by intelligent reading as much as by intelligent writing. Are you doing your share? THE DIAL aims to present to discriminating readers news and information concerning current literature and literary tendencies. Its policy is one of fearless independence based upon sound critical thinking. On January 1 the price Until that time subscriptions will be received at the present rate of $2.00 the year. A trial subscription for six numbers will be sent to any reader of POETRY on receipt of 25 cents. THE DIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 608 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET |
