Miss Fannie Stearns Davis is a young American who has written many songs and lyrics, a collection of which is to be published this spring. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but now lives in the East.
Mrs. Meynell, who is the wife of Mr. Wilfrid Meynell, editor of one of the leading English Catholic reviews, hardly needs an introduction in America, where her exquisite art is well known. Her small volumes of essays—The Rhythm of Life, The Color of Life, The Children, etc., and her Poems are published by The John Lane Company.
Mr. Ridgely Torrence is the author of El Dorado, A Tragedy, Abelard and Eloise, a poetic drama, and Rituals for The Events of Life. He contributes infrequently to the magazines, several of his longer poems having never been republished. He lives in New York.
Mr. Samuel McCoy was born, thirty-one years ago, at Burlington, Iowa. He now lives at Indianapolis, and devotes himself wholly to literary work. He was educated at Princeton, and from 1906 to 1908 was associate editor of The Reader. A collection of Mr. McCoy's poems will be issued in book form this year by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Mr. Alfred Noyes, a young English poet, is a well known contributor to English and American magazines, and has published many books of poetry. The Loom of Years; The Flower of Old Japan; Poems; The Forest of Wild Thyme; Drake, English An Epic; Forty Singing Seamen, and The Enchanted Island are among the titles of his published works; and a new volume, The Tales of the Mermaid Tavern, is to be published this spring by the Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Early numbers of Poetry will contain poems by John G. Neihardt, Ezra Pound, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Allen Upward, and others.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Songs of a Syrian Lover, by Clinton Scollard. Elkin Mathews. Annatese of Song, by George M. P. Baird. Privately Printed. Pearls of Thought, A Collection of Original Poems, by Samuel M. Fleishman. Privately Printed. The Summons of the King, A Play, by Philip Becker Goetz. The MacDowell Press. Drake, An English Epic, by Alfred Noyes. Frederick A. Stokes Co. Sherwood, or Robin Hood and the Three Kings, A Play in Five Acts, by Alfred Noyes. Frederick A. Stokes Co. The Enchanted Island and Other Poems, by Alfred Noyes. Frederick A Stokes Co. Songs of the City, by DeCamp Leland. The Westende Publishing Co. In Vivid Gardens, by Marguerite Wilkinson. Sherman, French & Co. A Book of Verse, by Alice Hathaway Cunningham. Cochrane Publishing Co. Chilhowee, A Legend of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Henry V. Maxwell. Knoxville Printing Co. Sappho, And the Island of Lesbos, by Mary Mills Patrick. Houghton Mifflin Co. Harp of Milan, by Sister M. Fidés Shepperson. J. H. Yewdale & Sons. Two Legends, A Souvenir of Sodus Bay, by Mrs. B. C. Rude. Privately Printed. Moods, by David M. Cory. The Poet Lore Co. Poems, by Charles D. Platt. Charles D. Platt, Dover. New Jersey. Poems, Old and New, by A. H. Beesly. Longmans, Green & Co. Paroles devant la Vie, par Alexandre Mercereau. E. Figuière Alexandre Mercereau, par Jean Metzinger. E. Figuiére, Paris. Anthologie-Critique, par Florian-Parmentier. Gastien-Serge, Paris.
PERIODICALS
The Wild Hawk, Hervey White. The Maverick Press, Woodstock, N. Y. The Bibelot, Thos. B. Mosher, Portland, Maine. The Idler, Robert J. Shores, New York City. The Century, New York City. The Forum, New York City. The Conservator, Horace Traubel, Philadelphia. The Nation, New York City. The Poetry Review, Harold Munro, London. The Poetry Review (New Series), Stephen Phillips, London. The Literary Digest, New York City. Current Opinion, New York City. The International, New York City. The Dial, Chicago. The Survey, New York City. The Nation, New York City. The Music News, Chicago. Mercure de France, 26 Rue de Condé, Paris. L'Effort Libre, Galerie Vildrac, 11 Rue de Seine, Paris. Les Poétes, E. Basset, 3 Rue Dante, Paris. (This number devoted to poems selected from the work of Nicolas Beauduin, Paroxyste.) L'Ile Sonnante, 21 Rue Rousselet, Paris.