Mr. John Reed, of New York, and Alice Corbin, the wife of William P. Henderson, the Chicago painter, are Americans. The latter has contributed verse and prose to various magazines. The former is a young journalist, born in 1887, who has published little verse as yet.
Rabindranath Tagore, the poet of Bengal, is sufficiently introduced by Mr. Pound's article.
BOOKS RECEIVED
The Vaunt of Man and Other Poems, by William Ellery Leonard. B. W. Huebsch. Romance, Vision and Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the XIV Century, Newly Rendered in the Original Metres, by Jessie L. Weston. Houghton Mifflin Co. Etain The Beloved, by James H. Cousins. Maunsel & Co. Uriel and Other Poems, by Percy MacKaye. Houghton Mifflin Co. The Unconquered Air, by Florence Earle Coates. Houghton Mifflin Co. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, by Amy Lowell. Houghton Mifflin Co. The Lure of the Sea, by J. E. Patterson. George H. Doran Co. The Roadside Fire, by Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Co. By the Way. Verses, Fragments and Notes, by William Allingham. Arranged by Helen Allingham. Longmans, Green & Co. Gabriel, A Pageant of Vigil, by Isabelle Howe Fiske. Thomas B. Mosher. Pilgrimage to Haunts of Browning, by Pauline Leavens. The Bowrons, Chicago. The Wind on the Heath, Ballads and Lyrics, by May Byron. George H. Doran. Valley Song and Verse, by William Hutcheson. Fraser, Asher & Co. The Queen of Orplede, by Charles Wharton Stork. Elkin Mathews. Pocahontas, A Pageant, by Margaret Ullman. The Poet Lore Co. Poems, by Robert Underwood Johnson. The Century Co. Songs Before Birth, Isabelle Howe Fiske. Thomas B. Mosher. Book Titles From Shakespeare, by Volney Streamer. Thomas B. Mosher. A Bunch of Blossoms, Little Verses for Little Children, by E. Gordon Browne. Longmans, Green & Co. June on the Miami, by William Henry Venable. Stewart & Kidd. The Tragedy of Etarre, A Poem, by Rhys Carpenter. Sturgis & Walton Co. In Other Words, by Franklin P. Adams. Doubleday, Page & Co. Verses and Sonnets, by Julia Stockton Dinsmore. Doubleday, Page & Co. Anna Marcella's Book of Verses, by Cyrenus Cole. Printed for Personal Distribution. Atala, An American Idyl, by Anna Olcott Commelin. E. P. Dutton & Co. Spring in Tuscany, an Authology. Thos. B. Mosher.
| Vol. I No. 4 | |
| JANUARY, 1913 | |
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GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN (To be sung to the tune of The Blood Of The Lamb with indicated instruments.)
Booth led boldly with his big bass drum. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? The saints smiled gravely, and they said, "He's come," Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?Bass Drum Walking lepers followed, rank on rank, Lurching bravos from the ditches dank, Drabs from the alleyways and drug-fiends pale— Minds still passion-ridden, soul-powers frail! Vermin-eaten saints with mouldy breath, Unwashed legions with the ways of death— Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Every slum had sent its half-a-score The round world over—Booth had groaned for more. Every banner that the wide world flies