The Poems of François Villon. Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole. (Lane: $1.50 net) A convenient edition of Villon’s best work, in which a reasonably accurate text of the two Testaments and the best of the Ballades and Rondels is printed, together with a running commentary, a vivid introduction, and translations of some of the shorter poems with dubious success. However, the volume is the best popular service to Villon that has yet been performed in this country, and should be on the library shelf.

* Little Verse for a Little Clan. By F.D.W. (Published Privately: Not for Sale.) A slight little volume of thirty-five pages of delicate workmanship, which contain poems that make the book rank among the very best of the year. I know of very few books written by Americans which would afford the pleasure to discriminating readers that this volume would offer were it to be published in a form accessible to all. It is as delicate, at its best, as Beeching and Mackail’s Love in Idleness, and will please all lovers of A Shropshire Lad. It is just the sort of book which Mr. Mosher used to delight in finding for the American public. I shall be glad to give further information about it to inquirers.

Eris: A Dramatic Allegory. By Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. (Moffat, Yard, and Co.: $1.00 net.) A short dramatic allegory in which the elements of poetry are present, but which is hardly successful in fusing them into life. There are several pages of genuine poetry which prove the certainty of the poet’s ultimate accomplishment, and much competent craftsmanship. This is an honest book, whose weakness is that the imagination of the reader has no suggestive substance to feed upon.

Justification: A Philosophic Phantasy. By John H. White. (Richard G. Badger: $1.00.) A poem in four short cantos and though philosophic in conception is full of abstract idealisms. The author has a fruitful imagination, but his reasoning on the origin and destiny of human life is profound. The verse, though concrete, is flexible.

* The Collected Poems of Margaret L. Woods. (Lane: $1.50 net.) The definitive edition of the poetry and drama of a great weaver of words and emotion, who unites to much of Lionel Johnson’s repressed sombreness a sustained beauty of musical effect which was characteristic of the earlier poet. Mrs. Woods has performed for Oxford the poetic service that Johnson performed for Winchester, and in other poems has added new immortalities to Westminster Abbey’s crown. The plays are finely wrought and deeply felt, and together with the lyrics, place Mrs. Woods in the authentic English poetic line.

LIST OF “DISTINCTIVE POEMS,” THEIR AUTHORS, AND THE MAGAZINES IN WHICH THEY APPEARED

Century—
The River. John Masefield.
Hope. Oliver Herford.
The Poet Rebukes His Flatterers. Fannie Stearns Gifford.
To Arms. Louis Untermeyer.
The Crucible. Robert Haven Schauffler.
To My Baby Hilda. Grace Hazard Conkling.
Love’s Lantern. Joyce Kilmer.
To My Little Son. Pauline Florence Brower.
Menace. George Sterling. On Hans Christian Andersen’s “Snow Queen.” William Rose Benét.
The Redwing. Bliss Carman.
El Greco Paints His Masterpiece. Thomas Walsh.
The Last Shrine. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Gaoler. Helen Gray Cone.
Summons. Louis Untermeyer.
O My Love Leonore. Fannie Stearns Gifford.
Three Poplars. Witter Bynner.
The Feast of the Gods. William Rose Benét.
Landscapes. Louis Untermeyer.
Patterns. James Oppenheim.
A Handful of Dust. James Oppenheim.
We Dead. James Oppenheim.
Lights Through the Mist. William Rose Benét.
The Flirt. Amelia Josephine Burr.
A Birthnight Candle. John Finley.
All Souls’ Night. Gertrude Huntington McGiffert.
“I Shall Go to Love Again.” Margaret Widdemer.
Prinzip. Cale Young Rice.

Harper’s—
The Look. Sara Teasdale.
Afterward. Charles Hanson Towne.
Old Friend. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Pool. Mary White Slater.
Night Song at Amalfi. Sara Teasdale.
Exile. Alice Duer Miller.
The Laggard Song. Richard Le Gallienne.
A Face at Christmas. Dana Burnet.
The Glory of the Grass. Claire Wallace Flynn.
Ships. John Masefield.

Scribner’s—
Student’s Song. Robert Louis Stevenson.
With Walton in Angle-Land. Robert Gilbert Welsh.
Reprieve. Charlotte Wilson.
Sir John Chandos and the Earl of Pembroke: A Ballad from Froissart. E. Sutton.
The Gift of God. Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Swimming by Night. Alice Blaine Damrosch.
How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim. Henry van Dyke.
The Trodden Way. Martha Haskell Clark. Old Fairingdown. Olive Tilford Dargan.
The Summons. William Rose Benét.
Solace. Walter Malone.
In the “Zoo.” George T. Marsh.
The Pipes of the North. E. Sutton.
The Regents’ Examination. Jessie Wallace Hughan.
If You Should Cease to Love Me. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
Desert Song. John Galsworthy.
The Drum. E. Sutton.
Another Dark Lady. Edwin Arlington Robinson.

The Forum—
The Song of the Women. Florence Kiper.
The Song of the Wind. John Allan Wyeth, Jr.
Pilgrimage. Laura Campbell.
The Cry of Woman. Victor Starbuck.
The Man on the Hill-top. Arthur Davison Ficke.
Sonnets of a Portrait-Painter, A Sequence (57 Sonnets). Arthur Davison Ficke.
Interim. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Prophet. Lyman Bryson.
The Two Flames. Eloise Briton.
The Shroud. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Cardinal’s Garden, Villa Albani. Witter Bynner.
Sorrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Phi Beta Kappa Poem: Harvard, 1914. Bliss Carman.