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Rh Neihardt lived among the Omaha Indians for six years, in order that he might study their characteristics and learn their legends.

He is the author of "The Divine Enchantment," "The Lonesome Trail," "A Bundle of Myrrh," "Man Song," "The River and I," "The Dawn-Builder," "The Stranger at the Gate," "Death of Agrippina," "Life's Lure," "The Song of Hugh Glass," "The Quest," and "The Song of Three Friends."

Thoughtful, philosophical, cultivated, are the adjectives employed by Louis V. Ledoux in describing the poetry of George Edward Woodberry, who sits in high place with the modern New England poets.

"The Flight and Other Poems" is a collection of about fifty of his more recent pieces. It was published in 1914, and here is "a poignant realization of absolute equality and brotherhood of man." Many of these record a passionate search within the soul for satisfaction, as may be seen in these lines:

"We sit in our burning spheres
 * Illimitably hung;

By the speed of light we measure the years
 * On purple ether flung;
 * Without a shadow time appears,
 * A calendar of echoing lights

That flame and dusk from depths and heights,
 * And all our years are young.

We gaze on the far flood flowing
 * Unimaginably free,