The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-15

PRELUDES AND SYMPHONIES. BY John
Gould Fletcher Houghton Mifflin Com
pany.
AFTERNOONS OF APRIL A book of verse
by Grace Hazard Conkling. A new edition
Houghton Mifflin Company.
SONGS OF YOUTH BY Mary Dixon Thayer.
Alfred A Knopf.
AMERICAN POETRY. 1922: A Miscellany.
Harcourt. Brace & Co.
HIPS AND HAwS. Poems by A E. Cop
pard- The Golden Cockerel Press. Charles
H Daniels.
TERPSICHoRE AND OTHER POEMS. BY
H T. Wade-Gery. The Golden Cockerel
Press. Charles H. Daniels
SPANISH FOLK SONGS. Selected and
translated with an introduction by S. De
Madariaga- Houghton Mifflin Company.
SONGS OF CHALLENGE An anthology
selected and arranged by Robert Froth-
ingham. Houghton MiffIin Company.
SONNETS OF A PORTRAIT PAINTER. BY
Arthur Dawson Ffcke Mitchell Kennerley.
THE GARDEN OF THE WEST. BY Louise
Driscon The Macmillan Company.
REAL PROPERTY. BY Harold Monro- The
Macmillan Company.
THE BLACK PANTHER By John Hall
WheeIock- Charles Scrfbner's Sons.
POEMS AND PLAYS. BY Robert Browning.
Introduction and Notes by Hewette Elwell
Joyce. Charles Scribner's Sons
THE COMPLETE POLITICAL WORKS OF
I~O6<Ali ALLAN OI< A-04lC0 " SAAiNo
A Harrison and r A Stewart. Thomas
Y. Crowel Company.
POEMS OF HEROISM IN AMERICAN
LIFE Edited by John R Howard.
Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
SHOES OF THE WIND. BY Hilda Conkling.
Frederick A Stokes Company
THE BALLAD OF THE ROYAL ANN
BY Crosble Garstin. Frederick ~ Stokes
Company.
HOWDY ALL And Other Care-free Rhymes
BY William HerscheIL Bobbs-Merrin Com
pany.
MIHRLMA. AND OTHER POEMS. BY Gale
Young Rice. The Century Company.
THE BARCARoI.E OF JAMES SMITH. BY
Herbert S. German G. P. Putnams Sons
TN this year of all sorts of omens for
the worlds future. the massed pub
LEGATION of thousand new pack
ages OF thought shot from the intel
lectual classes strikes the public with a
heavy impact And in the van Of them all,
light lancers skirmishing in advance of the
main army, come the poets. colorbearers
of the newest ideas. riding in independent
order. each In his own uniform. serenely
individual. singing their separate songs.
This performance is such a commonplace
OF autumn days that it has already been
treated professionally by an anonymous
writer who has paid Lowell the compli-
ment Of parodying the Fable for Critics"
with contemporary satire called "a Criti-
cal Fable" His work Is clever and well
hammered; none OF the contemporary bards
need take offense. and probably none will.
Mr.. Frost leads his list of he lampooned
and his bleak vision gets no more admira-
ton than it deserves. OF Mr.. E. a. Robin
son. whom he calls an excellent poet and
excellent person. but vague as a wood
gazed into at dusk"-which is perfectly
fair-he remarks:
Il takes a huge strength TO Withstand all
emotion.
But Robinson stays with his feet planted
square
On the middle of nothing. the vacuum
where
rhe worlds swinging starts and whirls
Carl Sandburg, on the other hand, Is
roughly hewn Cog
ShOrn OF his twin Magog
The author goes on with Masters. vachei
Lindsay. Conrad Aiken. ]. C. Fletcher,
Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Grace Conklin,
Edna Millay. besides Kreymborg, T. S.
Eliot. Ezra Pound. III d." the Uncer-
meyers and others. all of whom are held
up for admiration OF their best, with no
effort to cause anybody to be swallowed
whole. Altogether a good humored and