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119 Altho Carr is disappointed in his first love, when on returning home from a long trip, he learns of the betrothal of the sweetheart of his youth to his brother, he finally finds true love and builds a home in sight of both bay and sea.

Charles Wharton Stork was born on February 12, 1881, in Philadelphia and studied at Haverford, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He has done much for furthering interests in modern poetry both in America and abroad as Editor of Contemporary Verse, a monthly magazine devoted solely to original poems. He makes his home in Philadelphia but in the summer lives in a little house far up on the New England coast which he calls "The Stork's Nest."

There is a certain richness of words that distinguishes the poetry of George Sterling, whose writings were first so popular upon the Pacific coast, and which in good time have found their way into the hearts of a less local American audience.

Although of almost perfect craftsmanship, Mr. Sterling's poems are inclined to cloy by sheer heaviness of splendor. An example of this is found in the name poem of his collected verse, "The House of Orchids."

And in its antic flight Behold the vampire-bat veer off from thee As from a phantom face, Or watch Antares' light peer craftily Down from the dank and moonless sky,