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Reviews be said that the cosmos of the book seems to be founded on the conception of the supreme deity as one who likes everything; the idea of a God who has no taste. Surely this is a monotonizing misconception from the outset: and a being of universal powers must of necessity possess among them the faculty of self-criticism. This general observation on the poet's style of thought and expression is commended to the attention of all those who believe the only beauty is light without the presence of shadow; and the only piety is optimism. E. W.

Mr. William Butler Yeats, whose most recent poems we have the honor of presenting in this number, needs no introduction to our readers. Mrs. Padraic Colum's study of his later work, in our prose section, is the comment of a friend and fellow-countrywoman, who is nevertheless a discriminating critic.

Mr. F. S. Flint, a Londoner and one of the imagists, has also appeared before in. The first time was in March, 1913, when he wrote of Imagisme in our prose section, before he had associated himself with the group. This was the first article ever printed on the now much discussed subject. It accompanied Mr Ezra Pound's Don'ts by an Imagist.

Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer), of Chicago, author of The Sharing and other books of verse (Sherman, French & Co.) is another familiar contributor. Also William Laird, whose real name is slightly different.

Of the three new contributors:

Mr. Henry B. Fuller, of Chicago, who has been from the first a member of 's advisory committee, is the author of The Chevalier of Pesnsieri Vani, Under the Skylights, and other whimsically satirical tales, as well as of The Cliff-dwellers and other novels of Chicago life,